this is an entirely sincere question: renly’s model of government, aka “the strongest son takes what he wants regardless of right”, has been explained by asoiaf writers to be a model that would introduce chaos. but aren’t there models of that kind of inheritance in real life? like the ottoman sultans didn’t come to the throne in the same clear pattern of inheritance as in england, and murdered other claimants. so really, what makes that kind of model different from what renly was trying to do?