(02-22-2014, 02:51 PM)Ildur Wrote: Deciding that their morality must be similar to certain animals is not only purely speculative fiction, but also arbitrary.
This extrapolation speaks only about the likelihood of generalized mating behavior based off what we know of Miqo'te from the canon tribal lore. It says nothing about individual behavior or the wider arc of morality beyond mating habits because it's entirely unnecessary to state the plainly obvious.
(07-20-2013, 05:10 AM)Myxie Tryxle Wrote: Politics and sociology are not my fields of expertise, so there is plenty of room for these systems to be complicated by morality and ethics.  It is important to realize, however, that because these mating structures are historically normal to the Miqo’te, their perception of morality and ethics in regards to family and sexuality will differ from the typically monogamous viewpoint of modern human society on Earth.
Why is it unnecessary? There is more than enough in game to determine that Miqo'te are certainly capable of compassion and cruelty both, there's very little reason to include it in a discussion focused exclusively on extrapolating mating habits through logical deduction of information provided by the canon lore and real world biology.
I'm actually not sure what your primary disagreement is Ildur, as you have not provided any particular lore as evidence to discredit this model. You've only gone on about how this one is incomplete because it doesn't consider something that it had no intention to address to begin with - as it is plainly obvious to anyone that spends a few minutes talking to NPCs that Miqo'te are capable of reason and are not simple animals.
Is it the idea that a fresh Nunh might off the old Nunh's offspring? Then consider that this is only one small part of the model, and it being wrong does not discredit the rest of it. Is it that you feel that it reduces Miqo'te to a fanservice race? Then your gripe is with Square Enix and their design.
If you can provide an alternate model that adequately explains how Miqo'te mating habits work in a traditional/tribal lifestyle - again, this is only about tribal traditions, not about city Miqo'te or adventurer individuals - while also properly acknowledging the canon lore of the Tia/Nunh "right to breed" dynamic, the scarcity of males, the danger that a Nunh or would be Nunh faces during a challenge, the reality that Keepers also have breeding males (which lends some credence to the promiscuity model), and the promiscuous nature of many Miqo'te NPCs portrayed in game (again, not all of them), then please submit that model with your own reasoning and the basis for extrapolation. If it makes more sense than this model I and others will likely adopt it without hesitation.
