Perhaps that is a perspective that you are able to hold due to only sharing a world with humans.
[He taps his chin thoughtfully, trying to think up a good scenario to use as an example.]
Let’s take the merfolk for example. Did you know that eels will eat their own siblings? Now, let’s say for the sake of argument [Another tally mark for his list of reasons she’s going to be mad at him later.] that eel merfolk also do this.
By your standards, killing a sibling is something evil. It’s something reserved for beasts and other lesser creatures. However, without these instincts, that many eel merfolk could strip all the resources in their ecosystem, before starting to death themselves.
So what would that make the merfolk? Something lesser like beasts? Or would you still consider them equal to humans?
[After all, this would probably be a good answer to get now.
Though if he’s going to pick her brain about this, he should perhaps soften the blow on the friendship front.]
I think you misunderstand my meaning in it’s entirety, let me put it another way: If one individual stops putting forth effort into a friendship, then it will inevitably fall apart.
You and I simply have the understanding that we’re both invested in this friendship, and for the right reasons.
Cw for “theoretical” fratricide
[He taps his chin thoughtfully, trying to think up a good scenario to use as an example.]
Let’s take the merfolk for example. Did you know that eels will eat their own siblings? Now, let’s say for the sake of argument [Another tally mark for his list of reasons she’s going to be mad at him later.] that eel merfolk also do this.
By your standards, killing a sibling is something evil. It’s something reserved for beasts and other lesser creatures. However, without these instincts, that many eel merfolk could strip all the resources in their ecosystem, before starting to death themselves.
So what would that make the merfolk? Something lesser like beasts? Or would you still consider them equal to humans?
[After all, this would probably be a good answer to get now.
Though if he’s going to pick her brain about this, he should perhaps soften the blow on the friendship front.]
I think you misunderstand my meaning in it’s entirety, let me put it another way: If one individual stops putting forth effort into a friendship, then it will inevitably fall apart.
You and I simply have the understanding that we’re both invested in this friendship, and for the right reasons.