(06-08-2015, 12:33 AM)hauntmedoitagain Wrote:(06-07-2015, 11:22 PM)Nako Wrote: Yes, many innocents died when the Elementals flooded the earth, but the alternative was the destruction of the planet. Greater good and all that.
That's.. a very disturbing precedent to set and follow, let alone glorify.
(06-07-2015, 11:21 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Sure, if you ascribe Human morality to beings that are not, and never have been, human.
They're obviously intelligent enough to go beyond animal instinct. What else are we supposed to apply to it?
They don't care much if we live or die. What they care about is that we don't fuck with them and nature, else they will pull their genocidal magic and kill everyone.
Which is one of, if not the major reason for Gridania's xenophobic bias. The Shroud is territory from the elementals, borrowed to us so we can live in it. If the elementals didn't like you, they would instantly pull their guns and bombard you and others in proximity with the forest itself. (Greenwrath)
"Forever walking forward, towards the ever distant horizon."
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