Probably about a third of the population of England at the time faced constant poverty and hunger due to there simply not being enough land to support the population.  To the west is this wide open, un-farmed continent, with enough land to support everyone.  Do you allow your subjects to settle this land?<p>The point of these questions is that it is always easy to moralize when you don't have to make personal tradeoffs.  And in real life, there are often hard tradeoffs to make.  So I'm trying to figure out under what conditions, if any, you would make the choice to invade.  So far, you've moralized, but you've still evaded the hard questions.  What would you do in any of these scenarios?