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| Re: Is that your best response? | |
| Posted By: scarab | Date: 3/8/10 3:20 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Is that your best response? (Stephen L. (SoundEffect)) : I wasn't suggest you have to like the Covenant, even having played through : one's eyes, only in the Covenant's outlook on humanity. I just chose ants : but it could be flies or mosquitoes, or whatever. This is an excerpt from : The Flood novel illustrating what I was getting at: "He fought a : moment of revulsion. That these filthy primates somehow merited an actual : name—let alone names for their inferior constructs—galled him to his core. : It was perverse. Names implied legitimacy, and the vermin deserved only : extermination. Remember that we know that there exist Elites who are able to admire Human pluck. They recognized us as being worthy of an offer of entry into the Covenant. The attitude in the quote above is not inevitable for an Elite nor is it mandated by some quirk in the Elite's biology. It is a choice. The Elite knows better but has chosen to disregard what his senses, experiences, and intellect can tell him. Elites know our language, they know that we think and they know that our thinking processes are similar to their own and to those of Grunts, Prophets and Jackals. : Now this is one induividual Elite's opinion, but it's established that any of
Their prejudice may be common but it is still a prejudice and an assumed attitude. Those individuals who hold those opinions have chosen to hold them. They have not been forced into those opinions through some inescapable quirk of their biology. They are responsible for their opinions. Do you really believe that an Elite would have special hatred for Humans if he had met them without preconditioning through the Prophet's pronouncement? If so, how do you explain the fact that some Elites are free from this compulsion?
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