500 Words - 'The Ethics of Control'

This sort of dialogue was part of, vaguely, two separate story concepts. Both involved the confrontation/discussion of 'the ethics of control' with dictators or tyrants. This is a 'de-boned' such discussion, which relies somewhat less upon the context and background. I'll try not to make it too preachy.

Keep in mind, that the Praetor makes a number of fallacious arguments, and any logician or philosopher could riddle his arguments full of holes. Also, that a professional assassin could be at all made to pause by their target's demagoguery is also rather silly. Re-reading this, I'm not terribly happy with how it came out; it worked better when the people facing the tyrant were simply house-guests.

( The Ethics of Control )