In both "The Song of Ice & Fire" & "Fire & Blood", George R.R Martin was consistent in his association of opportunism and foul play with being a second born (not being the first born). And in that I vividly see the beauty of Islam especially with regards to inheritance.
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As Daemon Targaryen counselled Viserys, Otto Hightower was a dangerous, self-serving counselor, among others because he was a second born; whose lord of his ancestral castle was his elder brother and every privilege along the line as land, wealth etc, will pass to his nephews.
He stood to inherit nothing, only an empty name. His birthright gave him nothing because everything went to the firstborn. Thus, the second borns can never get what they don't take by force, cunning or deceit. And such is the case in every house in westeros.
It is also among the whys the Starks were the most honorable, for instead of their second borns to engage shadow activities to get what their birthright deny them, they'll rather go to the wall and join the night's watch. Benjen Stark & John Snow are enough examples.
The so-called gods were cruel; they give everything to the firstborns and nothing to the second borns, along the line crafting a design for where disorder will emanate - which sufficient evidence show it's mostly from second borns. Few of the brightest become maesters or Knights.
Now, in the past order or current, by observing closely how devastatingly material life has become, can you imagine the menace within families if inheritance isn't shared the way AllΓ’h ta'Γ’lΓ’ says it should be?
We'll easily become cunning and deceitful people by lineage design. Discrimination and lineage bigotry will take over for no reason other than the law has positioned some heirs to become good and others to become a disaster.
Passing birthrights to the firstborn was a common practice even among Muslims but mostly kings and prominent feudal aristocrats. But then they're easily the most restless family institutions with regards to lineage politics. Siblings kill siblings for rank & gold.
Even the conqueror Genghis Khan foresaw this and shared his exploits among his children and grandchildren whose fathers died before him. For men are wicked enough, giving them reason to be will set the whole dynasty ablaze. This is a proper Georgian trend of lineage consequences!
To make the pursuit of ethical behavior easy give people their birthrights. Not doing so may not cause undesirable consequences, but when it does, the consequences are fatal all the times. Georgian wickedness isn't by chance, it's by design, and the architecture is very profound.
@Abdulrah_maan what say you?
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