Unsurprisingly, you misunderstand. I don't grind anything into paste at all, certainly not those useful to me. [He really doesn't seem surprised at all. Tiny meat brains and all, warrior cultures aren't known for their innovative technological advances. Or any advances at all beyond 'hit thing with other thing', with all the refinement and elegance of mud on a brick.]
Those who dedicate their lives to such things, be it medical advances, technology, or other similar non-combative lives, tend to be the ones most easily killed because they spend so much time doing things that aren't learning how to slaughter everything left and right. By your previous definition, this would make them 'weak' and thus worthy of death, but they are still tremendously useful and vital to their population. Which means they should not be killed.
Which leads back around to the idea of letting the useless perish, not the 'weak'.
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Date: 2013-05-28 08:38 pm (UTC)Those who dedicate their lives to such things, be it medical advances, technology, or other similar non-combative lives, tend to be the ones most easily killed because they spend so much time doing things that aren't learning how to slaughter everything left and right. By your previous definition, this would make them 'weak' and thus worthy of death, but they are still tremendously useful and vital to their population. Which means they should not be killed.
Which leads back around to the idea of letting the useless perish, not the 'weak'.