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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WarShrike" data-source="post: 3987893" data-attributes="member: 54955">I rather like Enko's viewpoint as it adds spice to the roleplaying. However, human beings are voilent and greedy by nature. Just look at our world. With all the culture and understanding we've developped over the millenias, you'd think we'd have achieved a peaceful utopia by now. It will never happen. Because whatever we humans may say we want, humans don't want peace. They don't thrive on peace. I see Cuirlen much the same way. If it was a true utopia, everyone would be a vegetarian for starters. There would be no horses, which we have enslaved to suit our various needs. There would be no cattle or pigs, whose sole reason to exist in Cuirlen is to grow fat and be murdered in their prime to provide us with tasty treat. We wouldn't hunt the various wildlife, taking the lives of hundreds of fellow living biengs every year merely to add variety to our menu, or to cloth ourselves in their skins, or perhaps worst of all, to use their skins as a monetary system. We do these things because we are humans. We are human, they are animals, we matter, they don't. Period. Had we started as Elves, things might have been different, because theres no real knowledge of Elven behavior, there are no Elves in the real world (that i'm aware of, but i keep looking over my shoulder in the woods).Now, i don't see how we Cuirlenians would feel sympathy towards these creatures. We kill poor defenseless creatures every day in order to feast on them and whatnot already. Now these so called "poor defenseless creatures" had demented eyes, razor sharp teeth, bone carved blades, webbed feet, and most importantly, they attacked us. And although we have no idea of the why that they attacked, it doesn't really matter. You wake up and theres some sort of humanoid thing baring down on you with a knife. It's intent is clear. Do you ponder what is going on, what you may have done to anger it or whatnot, or do you kill it before it kills you? Then everybody else is awake and on their feet. Mob mentality kicks in. Action is called for. IQ drops significantly. Mobs don't think, they act. Sometimes, most times, they do very stupid things, things the individual persons would never do on their own. But they aren't their own anymore, they're part of the mob. When the mob's goal has been achieved, it disperses, and the people become individuals again. A person like Enko might feel horror at what the mob did and for his part in it, while people like Ryon, Thane, and Artemisia, who regularly kill things and engage in the skin trade, might not even care. To these 3, the things were just animals, because they surely weren't humans. Thus, they don't matter. Period.That's my view anyway. And i'm not a vegetarian or PETA supporter either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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