Quote: There are going to be missing elements.
The post is a lot of biological extrapolations that start from lore and cannot be supported by it. I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with is that it ignores that Miqo'te are humans. They are not lions, or any other type of cat. As far as the game world is concerned, they are people. And if we judge them by real life human standards, then they are still not lions; they are humans. But the post pretends that they are only lions anyway. It is not speaking of Miqo'te, really: it's speaking of hypotetical animals that share the Miqo'te societal norms without any of the thinking that would be involved. And that's why I call it useless: by ignoring everything that forms a culture besides the animal side, it is not talking about Miqo'te. It's a very interesting and well put strawman. But those aren't Miqo'te.
Quote: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.
This has nothing to do with it. You can't study Chinesse culture and societal norms only by studying their biology. Even more, you can't study them by picking a random individual and concluding that, because an individual took no ethical, moral or rational considerations in some of his decisions, then the culture they are part of won't either. You have to study what makes that culture like it is. What reasoning leads them to be like they are, their history, their morality. Human culture is much more complex than the social norms animals have. Studying a cultural group as if they were just animals makes no sense and leads nowhere.
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