Also, just to focus on the ethics question. Â It's difficult to know how comparative Eorzea is to our world, not at all would be my guess. Â But I would imagine that Eorzeans are very familiar with death, if not before the Calamity, then certainly afterward. Â It's a strange inverse reaction, I think. Â People today aren't all that experienced with death. Â They don't kill their own food. Â They don't bury their own kin. Â Friends and family usually live very long lives. Â Life is sacred, precious (sometimes).
It wasn't always like that. Â Our actual past was far bloodier, brutal, and shorter than most of us realize. Â People were simply more violent by nature and had a different point of view about death. Â Maybe not the aristocracy, but history, usually written by the aristocracy, does a very poor job at revealing the lives of the common person.
I've read a really good book about the decline of violence over last few generations and how violence today compares to historical records of the past. Â It was very eye-opening and changed the way I thought about "medieval themed" MMOs.
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
It wasn't always like that. Â Our actual past was far bloodier, brutal, and shorter than most of us realize. Â People were simply more violent by nature and had a different point of view about death. Â Maybe not the aristocracy, but history, usually written by the aristocracy, does a very poor job at revealing the lives of the common person.
I've read a really good book about the decline of violence over last few generations and how violence today compares to historical records of the past. Â It was very eye-opening and changed the way I thought about "medieval themed" MMOs.
Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined
Carne armum ergo sum.
