[Mid] "Earning" a peerage

> "Well, I've been in the SCA for a year now, so where's my AOA?" If you are
> trying to set a standard for peerage qualities, then any statement about
> "earning a peerage" may undo any plan for using peerages as "exemplars."

The concept "exemplars" is kinda linked, at least in my mind, to another
concept: Platonic objects.

How does a chair get to be a chair? No one grants it chairness in a lavish
ceremony with the king and queen (or would it be sofa and love seat?). It's
just recognized as a chair because it has chair like qualities which reflect
those of the ideal chair (or so Plato argued - and hey, I paid good money for
those philosophy classed and I'm gonna use 'em!).

But peers don't spring fully formed out of the head of Zeus. They become peers
over time. "Earn" seems like the logical verb to describe their development.

Avery
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