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Poll: Would you rather be a cowboy, samurai or pirate?

Would you rather be a cowboy, samurai or pirate?

  • Cowboy

  • Samurai

  • Pirate

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I have voted for Samurai.

Honour, bravery and a very high proficiency in sword fighting and dedication to armour and weaponry in general.
Also very much looked up to.

Grrr, !mrahil
 
Samurai for me.

As much as the pirate is associated with the image of a romantic adventurer and a free man that travels the sea with no master, it's just basically a glorified thief, and i'm no thief.

The cowboy is basicaly someone with a hard job, who lives an unforgiving life to take cattles from point A to point B in a dangerous journey and no place to call home. Unless we're talking about gunslingers, but even then you're basically a wanderer that lives on the edge, with people that would kill you just because.

Samurai, on the other side, is a valued and respected member of a well structured society (which may be suffocated by strict rules and a harsh sense of honour, but you are part of the higher class).
You of course need to follow your Lord and obey the code of conduct, but you are part of a prestigious niche... and finally the moral code of the warrior is something that appeals to me much more than a cut-throat lifestyle.
 
Imrahil said:
I have voted for Samurai.

Honour, bravery and a very high proficiency in sword fighting and dedication to armour and weaponry in general.
Also very much looked up to.

Grrr, !mrahil
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Killer Angel said:
Samurai for me.

As much as the pirate is associated with the image of a romantic adventurer and a free man that travels the sea with no master, it's just basically a glorified thief, and i'm no thief.

The cowboy is basicaly someone with a hard job, who lives an unforgiving life to take cattles from point A to point B in a dangerous journey and no place to call home. Unless we're talking about gunslingers, but even then you're basically a wanderer that lives on the edge, with people that would kill you just because.

Samurai, on the other side, is a valued and respected member of a well structured society (which may be suffocated by strict rules and a harsh sense of honour, but you are part of the higher class).
You of course need to follow your Lord and obey the code of conduct, but you are part of a prestigious niche... and finally the moral code of the warrior is something that appeals to me much more than a cut-throat lifestyle.
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My vote is the same as both of yours; samurai all the way.

The samurai has all the advantages in my opinion:
-respected
-highly educated and skilled
-beautiful surroundings and living conditions
-part of a well structured society
 
NIGHTBRINGER said:
My vote is the same as both of yours; samurai all the way.

The samurai has all the advantages in my opinion:
-respected
-highly educated and skilled
-beautiful surroundings and living conditions
-part of a well structured society
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now i need to see the original video... ;)
 
If you are talking real world. Samurai. Samurai were nobles. Nobles during a harsh area, but still nobles.

Cowboys and pirates in the real world usually lived rough uncomfortable lives and pirates did illegal and amoral things.

Fictionalized. I STILL would put the Samurai first. I'd rather be an honorable badass than a romantic loner or a roguish bad boy.

Fictionialized settings, it just knocks cowboys down from second place to third place.
 
Imrahil said:
I will be very curious about the reasoning not to pick Samurai :P
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While I picked the samurai, I can see an argument for the others.

Firstly, in terms of the samurai, you've got the Seppuku. That's a definite drawback should you be faced with failure, and something that does not plague the other two choices. Next, the path of the samurai is the most rigid of the three, with both of the other choices offering people more freedom and flexibility. The samurai follow a much more set path; a path that is decided upon by their lord. It's not hard to imagine that this is something that a free spirit would not enjoy. Conversely, a cowboy has the ability to "go their own way" and a pirate even more so (as they are much less bound to a moral & legal compass). The path of the samurai grants greater stability, but at the cost of adventure. The cowboy and especially the pirate are something more akin to a wildcard. I can imagine that some people might be drawn to such a lifestyle.
 
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