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Advanced Negotiations

Scenario:

You are to attend a diplomatic meeting with a historically hostile party. This party has had a long history of violent confrontation with your people and has a reputation for dishonesty. Yet, the rules of conduct for this mediated meeting are that no one be armed nor display anything that could be construed as aggressive. What do you do? Explain your reasoning.

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Of course. You could make that a condition of the meeting.

Okay. So, you go with the meeting, although you keep your own armed people nearby in case you need backup quickly. You don't need weapons to negotiate.

That sounds exactly like my old teacher. "You don't need weapons to negotiate."

And you don't. You just need to do the research beforehand to make sure you are absolutely as prepared as you can be. And be ready for them to break the deal at any time.

Yeah, you should expect them to pull some tricks, and be prepared for whatever they could come up with. Best thing would probably to get a diagram of the meeting place, figure out how many delegates they're sending, and try to come up with every possible scenario they could throw at you, and be prepared for them all.

Never trust anyone.

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Or as my old teacher used to say, "Hope for the best, prepare for the worst."

*shakes head*

I have to stop quoting him. He'll think I was learning or something.

I promise not to tell.

*smiles*

I'd appreciate it.

Never trust anyone.

It's an unfortunate reality.

But if the other side has no intention of negotiating, as is the case a lot, then weapons rapidly become necessary.
Really, it's probably best to be overprepared, instead of underprepared.

True. That's why I suggest having backup outside - so you can protect yourself without breaking the rules of the negotiation.

Of course, this is under the assumption that the neutral third party is reliable. If not, you need to take a different approach.

How often is there going to be a 100% neutral party that isn't already partial or can't be bought?
I'm sticking with my 'bring in people with superpowers' approach.

I said "reliable", not "impartial". If they're buyable, I'd make sure I was the one paying.

And if I were choosing the terms, I'd forbid people with superpowers, since they are weapons.

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It's not guaranteed that the other side also has the approac so *nods*

Absolutely.

Lucky for me and my cool mind-control powers--I wouldn't have to be unarmed for long.

But if the party knew it was negotiating with Jedi and tried to double-cross? Really, they'd deserve every bit of justice I'd be meting out.

Yay, superpowers, I'm not disagreeing there. But, like Echolls said, doesn't bringing in someone with superpowers count as a sort of weapon.
Not that I agree with him. Just arguing both sides.

That is a very good argument as to what consitutes a weapon.

I'd say that every being, regardless of super powers, can be thought as some sort of weapon with the proper motivation. I mean, she might not be able to lift someone off the ground using the power of her mind, or kick someone through a brick wall, but I'm betting that Rory could inflict some serious damage if she felt like she had no other choice.

You have to start out with some sort of trust, though, to even begin negotiations. Otherwise, taken to the logical extreme of paranoia, you're going to end up with two brain-dead naked toddlers in a room together and nothing will get accomplished.

Well, yeah. But me hitting someone with a chair, or whatever else happens to be in the meeting room, is hardly the same as me hitting someone with a sword.

Sometimes you have to make do with what you have on hand.

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A very wise approach.

*blushes*

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