Interpretation issues with Beliefs and earning Artha

Burning Wheel First Reading
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I think we’ve been orbiting this particular point the entire thread, but one of the old tricks for writing beliefs is to break them into two parts:

  1. Statement of intent/goal/philosophy
  2. Action in service of intent/goal/philosophy

The Sword belief we’ve been discussing is the number 2 in the above equation without a number 1 to fuel it.