i agree with whoever that suggested brother might be about to die, but hot sister…with her hatred of humans…i bet she ends up with one! this show’s just how progressive agrippas’ attitude is for an azatoth. what a shame this guy won’t join them and fight solus in an organized way – seems like he’d have a better chance at successfully taking his revenge.
Rhys
ah. bigotry. Someone is always willing to believe that another group of people deserves to die in some horrible fashion. I guess this trend hold true for aliens as well as humans. lovely.
On another note. Excellent I am so glad they’re back from hiatus.
Hornet
Rhys,
Why wouldn’t emotionally driven thought hold true across racial boundaries?
Provided the emotions and triggers are similar.
Rhys
Hornet,
People always seem to assume that aliens would think just like us. They Assume that (for lack of a better way of putting it) human thinking or human level intelligence is the end destination of evolution. That seems highly arrogant on our part to assume that. Though Yes I do agree that is a species that is emotionally and intellectually similar to our own would obviously reach similar conclusions to our own.
Rhys
Come on people somebody add to the thread!
Keeva
I sense imminent character development.
Jamming
Sister is bigoted but the bad-guys are sociopaths, its an easy distinction to make. As to humanity, we fill a position in the chain of life or food chain. The Intellectual Omnivores as we are the naked apes (so to speak). When two species that fill the same position meet then they must either the must adapt or die in conflict over resources. The humans have rapid reproduction, whereas the Azatoth have longer lifespan. Numbers overcome in many cases, but not all. Nuclear Weapons and similar WMD’s can be a big force multiplier for smaller numbers. The question becomes not who wins the conflict, but who survives afterward and their humanity would have the advantage.
Rhys
Which is worse bigoted or sociopathic? On one hand Bigoted apathy can create opening that the sociopathic can exploit. On the other it take a sociopath or psychotic to commit most atrocities.
Kalenath
True, but not always.
Some atrocities are committed by people who SHOULD know better, who DO know better. But either through fear or stupidity let things get out of hand.
I think both blind bigotry and most sociopath tendencies have the same root in fear. They are both equal in my book. Case in point, the Communists under Stalin.
WAS he a sociopath? Or just scared out of his mind? Or both?
Rhys
There is a difference between an atrocity and a tragedy. tragedies are “generally” unintentional either being unguided “acts of god” like a natural disaster or an accident caused either by chance or incompetence. Atrocities are generally intentional one way or the other and need to be directed.
As to the topic of stalin. Maybe he was terrified to madness by something. But there are clues in his life that seem to indicate he wasn’t the most stable individual throughout most of his life.
I do agree that ultimately sociopathy and bigotry are equally bad.
Did you know that the psychologist who studied to those on trial at Nuremberg after the second world war came to the conclusion that evil, true evil is rooted in the inability to empathize with others. The inability to feel for ones acquaintances and ultimately ones victims. This is why Bigotry itself is so dangerous even compared to sociopathy or psychosis. It has the ability to “Artificially” remove ones empathy for another group of people, by telling a person that “those” people don’t matter. They are no better than animals or objects, or they don’t feel like we do so its okay to kill them. In this way bigotry can transform otherwise normal and functional people in to the sort of being who could help to commit atrocities.
Lazy Jesus
sweet bleeding christ the updates have retruned HAZZAH!
http://hifranc.livejournal.com/ Francisco
I hope news of the biolabs gets out. If the news comes out in the right way it could mean that Solus would have his own people after him.
