Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
First, before crushing a rebellion it seems reasonable to ask why there's a rebellion in the first place, and whether removing the motivation might be easier and less costly than crushing the rebellion. If your populace is rebelling because you've banned alcohol and they want to get drunk, its quite likely that the total cost of crushing the rebellion would be less than the total cost of letting them do what they want to do.
a.) I'm not ever actually going to use the term "crushing rebellion."

b.) If the populace has resorted to violence to protest then I'm going to force them to give up violence. - and that is not to say they do not have a legitimate cause IN THEIR eyes, or that the cause really is the cause - something folk seem to keep missing.