Now it isn't your fault, but the first one was personal. Don't get the two confused, now, because it can be both. Anyone else in that situation would have done something of a similar mind, and it doesn't make any sense to get mad at something for doing what comes naturally. Coeurl's gotta hunt, fish gotta swim, water's wet, and fire burns.
It's sort of like separating and disposing of the chaff. You know how crops wither after the harvest and needs replanting? Well, that doesn't just happen to plants. It's all sort of things in the world that do it. Balance is an integral part of the world, you know, and sometimes we need to act to help keep that balance. Hunters know to not shoot everything in the woods or the fields that jumps out. Kill too many wolves and the vermin'll eat your whole spring's planting. Kill all the vermin and the wolves starve out and die. You can see where I'm going with this, can't you?
Sometimes there's too many people, too. There's only so much land in the world, and it's not like it's getting any bigger. Only so much space to build on, only so many places that'll make for good soil. Crops can only feed so many, and we've got a whole lotta people sharing already-crowded space. I know what happened a couple of years ago was bad, I know it. The world's still recovering, but that's what nature does. You might be able to argue that the whole reason we had to go through it anyway was because of our own folly, you might indeed. It's not like the moon just fell out of the sky on its own, is it? That's not natural.
So I know what happened back then changed a lot of things. I know you suffered for it. I know it hurt. But you can't get mad at the world for being the world. You can't get mad at water being wet. You can't blame the coeurl for doing what comes naturally. I don't blame you for burning it down, and you shouldn't either. There was too many people there as it was, and not enough food to go around for all of them. It's easier for the rest of us now.
You're just giving nature a hand.
It's sort of like separating and disposing of the chaff. You know how crops wither after the harvest and needs replanting? Well, that doesn't just happen to plants. It's all sort of things in the world that do it. Balance is an integral part of the world, you know, and sometimes we need to act to help keep that balance. Hunters know to not shoot everything in the woods or the fields that jumps out. Kill too many wolves and the vermin'll eat your whole spring's planting. Kill all the vermin and the wolves starve out and die. You can see where I'm going with this, can't you?
Sometimes there's too many people, too. There's only so much land in the world, and it's not like it's getting any bigger. Only so much space to build on, only so many places that'll make for good soil. Crops can only feed so many, and we've got a whole lotta people sharing already-crowded space. I know what happened a couple of years ago was bad, I know it. The world's still recovering, but that's what nature does. You might be able to argue that the whole reason we had to go through it anyway was because of our own folly, you might indeed. It's not like the moon just fell out of the sky on its own, is it? That's not natural.
So I know what happened back then changed a lot of things. I know you suffered for it. I know it hurt. But you can't get mad at the world for being the world. You can't get mad at water being wet. You can't blame the coeurl for doing what comes naturally. I don't blame you for burning it down, and you shouldn't either. There was too many people there as it was, and not enough food to go around for all of them. It's easier for the rest of us now.
You're just giving nature a hand.
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