Originally posted by mpanty
HEY! Is this your faith in human nature, "anything that some human wouldn't be proud of"???
How can you deny the truth!? You might be a Kilrathi fan and admire their ways and their code of honour in battle (and I think even I
do admire their battle strategies), but they have absolutely no signs of humanity, and that's a fact!! And that's because the storywriters/Chris Roberts made them so...
As a result, so signs of mercy or anything of the kind.
I know it's sad, but that's how they were meant to be...
Oh, I have faith in human nature, all right. It's just that I'm not blind - I see what human nature is really like. I have faith in human nature - I have faith that humanity is cruel, merciless, and downright evil.
That is human nature. But I have faith, too, that humanity is kind, merciful, creative, and generally good. Because
that too, is human nature. And they are not mutually exclusive. Show me a human that did something kind, and I'll show you another that commits genocide.
According to you people, somehow the genocide of several races makes the Kilrathi more evil than humanity. How many nations have been wiped out on Earth? How many times have colonists landed and decided that coexistence just won't work - those bloody primitives absolutely must go. Such deceitful measures as you condemn in the Kilrathi were par for the course.
I repeat - there is no thing the Kilrathi did, that some human wouldn't be proud of. And remember, we only heard about the bad things, because there was this war on... do you recall when we started hearing all those bad things about Saddam Hussein? Milosevic? How about the anti-Japanese propaganda in WWII? My point is that when you're at war, you don't want your soldiers to think, "well, yeah, but maybe the enemy is really no different to us." You want the soldiers to
hate the enemy, because it's the best way to control morale. And we, of course, saw the war from the Confed point of view. Naturally, you didn't hear about all the good things the Kilrathi did, or about the atrocities that Confed forces have commited.