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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7802193" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>So you are suggesting that the dragon quickly and humanely just kill the creature?</p><p></p><p>No analogy is perfect, but I suspect good dragons would be quite as appalled by cruelty to a dog as you or I would be. That said, rock salt is highly unlikely to be anything but an irritant to a wild animal at any sort of reasonable range (cardboard is a reasonable defense against rock salt rounds beyond like the first couple yards, and it's not the salt itself that is the problem but the wad), and I'd have to actually live in area with wild bears, lions, or say dingos before I'd be too judgmental at even using bird shot to dissuade an aggressive animal on my property. Go check out the statistics on North American bear deaths. Plenty of people have died despite being armed because they were reluctant to kill an aggressive bear, or worse had to watch a family member mauled to death while they were loading their second round. I love wild animals. I've never had a problem with a bear and they are generally more afraid of me than I am of them. But I suspect my analogy with the dragon's view of people isn't that far off of what I'd think were I choosing between a bear and a person.</p><p></p><p>In the dragon's case, this probably means trying to scare off or control the perceived threat with those "non-lethal" breath weapons that it has at it's disposal, but if it actually gets hurt trying to protect the life of those feral humans, it will probably re-prioritize.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Before someone decides that shooting rock salt at something is harmless, I should point out that at point blank ranges the wad itself - just some cloth or a bit of light plastic - can kill, that the powder discharge of even a blank can kill within the first few feet, and that the reason rock salt tends to just bruise is that it shatters and then very quickly loses velocity. Plus, no destructive device should ever be fired at something you don't intend to destroy, because mistakes in the load can happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7802193, member: 4937"] So you are suggesting that the dragon quickly and humanely just kill the creature? No analogy is perfect, but I suspect good dragons would be quite as appalled by cruelty to a dog as you or I would be. That said, rock salt is highly unlikely to be anything but an irritant to a wild animal at any sort of reasonable range (cardboard is a reasonable defense against rock salt rounds beyond like the first couple yards, and it's not the salt itself that is the problem but the wad), and I'd have to actually live in area with wild bears, lions, or say dingos before I'd be too judgmental at even using bird shot to dissuade an aggressive animal on my property. Go check out the statistics on North American bear deaths. Plenty of people have died despite being armed because they were reluctant to kill an aggressive bear, or worse had to watch a family member mauled to death while they were loading their second round. I love wild animals. I've never had a problem with a bear and they are generally more afraid of me than I am of them. But I suspect my analogy with the dragon's view of people isn't that far off of what I'd think were I choosing between a bear and a person. In the dragon's case, this probably means trying to scare off or control the perceived threat with those "non-lethal" breath weapons that it has at it's disposal, but if it actually gets hurt trying to protect the life of those feral humans, it will probably re-prioritize. EDIT: Before someone decides that shooting rock salt at something is harmless, I should point out that at point blank ranges the wad itself - just some cloth or a bit of light plastic - can kill, that the powder discharge of even a blank can kill within the first few feet, and that the reason rock salt tends to just bruise is that it shatters and then very quickly loses velocity. Plus, no destructive device should ever be fired at something you don't intend to destroy, because mistakes in the load can happen. [/QUOTE]
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