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: and he honestly seems like a pretty decent guy
: with some good ideas. However, as
: Christopher has pointed out, he was
: unstinting in playing the race card against
: Yi Ku, and there are questions about his
: backing. The family has of course selected
: someone else as crown prince, and I wish Yi
: Seok would get behind that guy instead of
: being so self-promoting. The Korean system
: for selecting the head of household has much
: to recommend it, in that the rules are not
: so strict that they get trapped into naming
: a total incompetent as HoH, but on the other
: hand, it does leave some room for other
: contenders to argue. I guess that has
: happened historically in other places as
: wellm though, as I should know - I still
: have living elderly aunts who are Jacobites.
:
I suppose one could also add that in any system where there is an element of choice by the elders or wise men of the family, they are hardly ever going to select someone who has had two attempts at suicide.
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