It's not despicable or hypocritical at all.
Well if you say so Gulliver
If you willingly violate the sovereignty of another then you forfeit your own, that is an explicitly stated and internally consistent part of the ideology. If you attack regions, then they and their allies have the right to fight back.
Taijitu should fight back against those who have attacked it. You go on about "destroying communities." We're no better if we support or contribute to a foreign policy that attacks regions, Raider or otherwise, that have never attacked us.
At the end of the day? "Sovereigntism" is just an excuse to pile on people who enjoy a meta game in a different way you do. I, for one, don't want to see my region be a part of that.
In my opinion? We shouldn't engage in any offensive operation unless the target has expressly harmed Taijitu in the past. And no, TNP or its allies don't count. I know this may come as a shock to some of my colleagues here, but Taijitu is in fact its own distinct region. Let's stand up to those that threatened us. Not go around harassing people who enjoy NS in a way you personally disapprove of.
Fandom Alliance was a founderless community. Then the raiders came in and never left once they'd "had their fun". They instead stuck around until all the natives were forced to leave and the community fell apart.
First off, it's their own fault for not maintaining an active founder.
Secondly? There was nothing stopping the natives from regrouping off-site (on, say, a message board) and founding a new region. Raiders didn't destroy that community. Apathy did.
More recently, Japan was another well-off founderless community until they got raided. In this case, the natives (with help from organizations like the Citizens' Militia) were able to win out, but they've had to lock the region for safety because of the permanent threat of raids. New members can't join now and the region is effectively moribund.
Again. Off-site forums. Skype. IRC. Plenty of options to regroup, leave the Raiders with the abandoned husk Japan, and form a new Founder-serviced region.
And now they're doing the same thing in St Abbaddon, a region which is too old to have ever had founder. They've been there a month. They have absolutely no intention of leaving once they've "had their fun". They're going to sit there until they have enough influence to boot out all the region's natives so they can refound the region as a lifeless trophy. This is a region and community which is over 10 years old and they're erasing it from the game so they add one more trophy to their collection.
Same thing. Again. I'm sure St. Abbaddon has an off-site forum. I'm sure a community as old as they are have enough established members who have each others' IM information to coordinate outside of the NS site. This isn't a problem. Have the natives leave and establish a new region with a Founder. Something that will all but guarantee Raiders won't even consider attacking.
I'm sorry Gulliver. You keep going on about all of these communities that Raiders have destroyed, and I just don't see it. I see "communities" that had all they needed to survive their NS region being raided but simply didn't care enough to do what was needed to keep things together.
Say Taijitu was, somehow, successfully raided. I'd still talk to my friends I've made here regularly. Oz, OT, Dixie, Delfos, Khem, and POD's contact info wouldn't suddenly vanish from my Skpe address book. The Taijitu forums wouldn't vanish from the innerwebs. The IRC channel would still be there. We'd have the tools to not only continue on as a community but the means to create a new NS region. Taijitu 2: Revenge of the Fallen. A Michael Bay Production.
This is why the whole NS gameplay thing doesn't interest me. It's not as simple as it not being my cup of tea. I did give it a chance. At the end of the day? It's just various groups of people acting self-righteous about a meta game. Raiding, defending. I can't be bothered to pretend that either has any sort of moral highground. Especially not with the rise of the "sovereigntist" ideology.
What I care about is Taijitu. Even you Gulliver, and Elu
I believe we should protect ourselves. No more. No less.