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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 528 | Can warriors be magistrates?
Answer
No . . .
Well, maybe yes
Here at ~The Gorean Cave~ is everything the books tells us of the Caste of Warriors.
At another link here at ~The Gorean Cave~ is everything the books tell us of Magistrates.
In looking over the quotes pertaining to Magistrates it seems to me they are definitely more closely related to the Caste of Scribes than the Caste of Warriors.
Possession, particularly after a lengthy interval, is often regarded as decisive, by praetors, archons, magistrates, scribes of the law, and such. What is of most importance to the law is not so much that a particular individual owns a slave as that she is owned by someone, that she is absolutely and perfectly owned.
Swordsmen of Gor    Book 29    Page 452
Or they might be better described as those serving in a city's police force, appointed directly by the High Council.
Most ports and islands on Thassa, of course, are not managed by the Merchants, but, commonly, by magistrates appointed by the city councils. In Port Kar, my city, the utilization of the facilities of the port is regulated by a board of four magistrates, the Port Consortium, which reports directly to the Council of Captains, which, since the downfall of the warring Ubars, is sovereign in the city. I suppose the magistrate, who, with his papers, met us at the dock, did not believe my story.
Hunters of Gor    Book 8    Page 43
On the other hand, one might then argue that to be serving in a city's police force, the "policeman" would need to be of the Caste of Warriors.
And if that isn't enough of a stretch, one could always throw in the example of Cernus who, in order to become Ubar, finagled the Caste Laws so that he, while still of the Caste of Slavers, was inducted into the Caste of Warriors.
That is detailed in Book 5, Assassin of Gor.
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