Quick question: why can't we judge Miqo'te by real human standards? And by 'real human standards' I mean what philosophically means to be a human being, not the specific morals we may or may not have.
An animal is a being that can move by itself. All humans can move by themselves, so they are animals. However, humans have a property that no other animal has: reason. Humans are rational animals, because they can use reason and move by themselves. Miqo'te have reason and can move by themselves. Therefore, they are humans.
Or, add "animals have instinct, movibility" and the other things Aristotle told us they have that I forgot, if you want. But details.
Deciding that their morality must be similar to certain animals is not only purely speculative fiction, but also arbitrary. It's based only on two facts: that Miqo'te have three animal traits (tails, ears, fangs/eyes) and that we happen to know that they are based on the catgirl/boy archetype. This is somehow more important that they are humans. The original post categorically ignores the human aspect of Miqo'te to concentrate on the biology, and then dares to make categoric statements about Sun Seeker morality, even though if you even run a cursory study of history of civilization you'll see there's always much more involved in the morality of a nation during a specific period.
Simply put: there is no lore evidence, as the post rightfully says, to support any of this conclusions. But the conclusions drawn are terrible by pretending to study what is a human culture in animal terms. Interesting, yes. Useful, no.
Quote: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.
An animal is a being that can move by itself. All humans can move by themselves, so they are animals. However, humans have a property that no other animal has: reason. Humans are rational animals, because they can use reason and move by themselves. Miqo'te have reason and can move by themselves. Therefore, they are humans.
Or, add "animals have instinct, movibility" and the other things Aristotle told us they have that I forgot, if you want. But details.
Deciding that their morality must be similar to certain animals is not only purely speculative fiction, but also arbitrary. It's based only on two facts: that Miqo'te have three animal traits (tails, ears, fangs/eyes) and that we happen to know that they are based on the catgirl/boy archetype. This is somehow more important that they are humans. The original post categorically ignores the human aspect of Miqo'te to concentrate on the biology, and then dares to make categoric statements about Sun Seeker morality, even though if you even run a cursory study of history of civilization you'll see there's always much more involved in the morality of a nation during a specific period.
Simply put: there is no lore evidence, as the post rightfully says, to support any of this conclusions. But the conclusions drawn are terrible by pretending to study what is a human culture in animal terms. Interesting, yes. Useful, no.
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