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Post by doetwin on Feb 14, 2016 19:22:30 GMT -5
The council of elders were furious at the Baudelaires for supposedly killing Jacques Snicket(or in their eyes, Count Olaf) but they were going to kill him anyway by burning him at the stake. Why did they get punished for supposedly killing someone who they were planning to kill anyways? And also, when other VFD citizens discover that Detective Dupin is Count Olaf, why does the Daily Punctilio continue to say that it was Count Olaf who was murdered, instead of Jacques?
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Post by Dante on Feb 15, 2016 3:23:56 GMT -5
In answer to your first point, if I snuck into a prison and murdered someone on death row, I too would be punished because murder is still murder, no matter who you murdered or where you murdered them. It's not the same as early execution; both I in my hypothetical example and the murderer of Jacques Snicket acted due to personal reasons and outside of due process. The rules state that rule-breakers must be burnt at the stake; that's the only time that murder is allowed in V.F.D.'s society, and if you murder someone at any other time, it simply doesn't matter who, because you yourself are now a rule-breaker. In other words, the rules were very much violated, and you know how V.F.D. feels about rule-breakers.
As for your second point, that being why The Daily Punctilio continued to accuse the Baudelaires of murder when V.F.D.'s villagers had discovered Count Olaf to still be alive, you have forgotten the crucial fact that The Daily Punctilio and its reporters are not very competent. They do not report the facts correctly, they do not follow them up, they clearly have very little idea of what is really going on. Considering the way the newspaper got everyone's names wrong, it's quite conceivable that they heard that Count Olaf was still alive and ignored it because all their reports were about a Count Omar.
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Post by doetwin on Feb 15, 2016 12:33:57 GMT -5
In answer to your first point, if I snuck into a prison and murdered someone on death row, I too would be punished because murder is still murder, no matter who you murdered or where you murdered them. It's not the same as early execution; both I in my hypothetical example and the murderer of Jacques Snicket acted due to personal reasons and outside of due process. The rules state that rule-breakers must be burnt at the stake; that's the only time that murder is allowed in V.F.D.'s society, and if you murder someone at any other time, it simply doesn't matter who, because you yourself are now a rule-breaker. In other words, the rules were very much violated, and you know how V.F.D. feels about rule-breakers. As for your second point, that being why The Daily Punctilio continued to accuse the Baudelaires of murder when V.F.D.'s villagers had discovered Count Olaf to still be alive, you have forgotten the crucial fact that The Daily Punctilio and its reporters are not very competent. They do not report the facts correctly, they do not follow them up, they clearly have very little idea of what is really going on. Considering the way the newspaper got everyone's names wrong, it's quite conceivable that they heard that Count Olaf was still alive and ignored it because all their reports were about a Count Omar. Okay, this makes sense. Thank you Dante.
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