(02-20-2014, 09:57 AM)allgivenover Wrote: Real life Humans have been capable of ethics/morality and abstract thought for a long while now, but even a cursory study of history will quickly reveal that it's done little to curb our inherent savagery
I think that's basically what I'm thinking when I read the first post. Sure, there are a ton of actual rl studies out there that don't even cover the basis of morality and sentience. This is of course all just theories and speculations all an all, that's why lore will always just be a guideline in the end.
(02-20-2014, 10:09 AM)Ildur Wrote: It's an interesting read but mostly useless because of that.
see though its not even that. I'm not going to quote the post like a bible, so I might have missed a specific phrase, but from what I recalled it was covered time and time again in the post that this was not everything or exactly as lore. There are going to be missing elements. That does not make something that can make the average person; ignorant to a variety of things, think outside their box of norm; as useless.
I'm no biology major; social interactions, even amongst animals are known minimally to myself at best. While rl, we as humans are 'not' actually apes... there will always be some sort of basic knowledge someone could walk away with in any sort of comparison study from any animal species. People can get defiant and offended, but there are so many instances where perfectly decent human beings act more on their instincts or basic desires. Sure you're not going to know why Stacy left their husband by watching Bubba the monkey play with a tree, but it's more a matter of environment I think. When it comes down to basics, there's bound to be some similarities now and then.
Far as seeker harems or typical mating/breeding social norms go, I think it's just a matter of the territory and the traditions of the tribe itself. Miqo'te seem to be very tribe loyal and hold to their inner traditions more or less from the various things I've read while playing. I don't see what would be so wrong with one area of territories of the same clan holding a similar likeness, while another does something differently. While I'm no expert, even I know that there's a socially accepted norm, but there will always be a key of evolution and deviation in sentient environments. Lesser common, but still present I'm sure.
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