(02-21-2014, 07:32 AM)Ildur Wrote:Quote: There are going to be missing elements.
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.
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. 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.
To the first part, in that same argument then we really can't say any of what we're saying can conclude what sort of environment or social cultural history the races have. It's very true that yes, the Miqo'Te aren't lions, nor are they strictly animals either. They obviously have sentience, morals, principles, guidelines in which they live. That goes the same for the other races. But there are also pieces of history in a rl sense where tribes or clans have taken after the animals ways of life in less than a literal sense (but that makes it less about human morality and more about their traditions) . They still have that factor of intelligence and difference of course, not downing that, really I'd love to see the original writer incorporate a second phase of their original writing that included the missing points.
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