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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3985573" data-attributes="member: 704">I chose to go with the 'desire to end a headache' approach because in most of the HP Lovecraft fiction I have read, there is as often as not a sense of malevolence coming off the creatures in those stories.A good example would be Mind Flayers.  They eat the brains of sentient creatures.  They have about as much outright hatred of humans as humans have of cows.  Consider for a moment if a cow was sentient and aware of its fate, but was born wild.One day strangely misshapen creatures show up and abduct you.  They keep you in a small pen, and you now receive your food and water from unusual recepticals.  One of the creatures takes a burning hot object constructed with technology you had no idea was possible, and burns a mark into your ass.  If your a female, machines are hooked up to your breasts and your milk is sucked out.  If your a male, if your not among the most fit, your balls are cut off.  To your horror, you realize that some of your keepers are wearing foot coverings and torso coverings made out of the flesh of your people!  You try to escape, but you encounter an impassible barrier that causes much more pain than it should if you touch it.  Time passes, and occasionally, you are fortunate to still have intact reproductive organs, you are forced to breed.  Once in a while, your keepers take some of the other prisoners away.  If you happen to get sick, one of your keepers will administer strange medicines, or even force one of his appendages up into your rectum.  One day, they come for you, and you are herded into a great machine where you are killed, and have the flesh stripped from your bones.  You are now a $20 New York Striploin dinner at the Keg Steakhouse.As a cow, you never know why these things are happening to you.  If you were aware of any of it, you would be horrified.  But, the full scope of activities of humans are beyond the comprehension of cows.  Does that mean that humans hate cows?Oh, and for what its worth, after writing down the above example, I really want to go out and eat a nice steak dinner.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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