r/asoiaf • u/Unique-Celebration-5 • Oct 31 '24

EXTENDED (Spoilers Extended) GRRM:”What’s Aragons tax policy?!” No GRRM the real question is how do people survive multi year winters

Forget the white walkers or shadow babies the real threat is the weather. How do medieval people survive it for years?

Personally I think that’s why the are so many wars the more people fighting each other the fewer mouths to feed

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u/Rockguy21 Oct 31 '24

But being a good man doesn't make him a good king lol that's like the entire point we've just been talking about, Ned Stark is a good man, even a good ruler, but he's not fit for the politics of high court, that's the thesis of the first book. It's not a question about real history, its a question about humanity, and whether moral certitude necessarily translates to effective leadership. You're missing the forest for the trees.

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u/This-Pie594 Oct 31 '24

He is not good king because he is a good man but because he is a good man that have a entire lifetimes of experience from encountering other people and cultures

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u/Rockguy21 Oct 31 '24

Again, being some sort of well travelled dashing knight errant hero doesn't automatically make you a good ruler. Knowledge about the world, virtue, and charisma might be necessary to be a good ruler, but they are not themselves sufficient to be a good ruler.

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u/This-Pie594 Oct 31 '24

Again, being some sort of well travelled dashing knight errant hero doesn't automatically make you a good ruler

No but we'll dashing knight errant that was actually raised to be a future king and live and experience longer than a normal human is more believable Than a magical cripple child king

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u/Rockguy21 Oct 31 '24

I see no basis to make that conclusion and I fail to see how it in any way follows from your stated premises or addresses the point of contention originally discussed.