"I do not think the Silurian soldiers were actually irrational. By their own, consistent standards, they were taking justified, if harsh, steps to preserve their race."
I agree. By their standards the "ape" behavior that ensued was the height of irrationality.
"I kind of wonder if the word we'd be using is 'irrational' if they were all unbending male militarists."
I think we both know that if the Silurian military class were male they would never have been called "irrational," and that if Howard Johnson Lizard Pope had been female she'd have been roundly dismissed in some corners as a silly hippy-dippy-mystic type thinking there could be peace.
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Tourists would barely bat an eye!
"I do not think the Silurian soldiers were actually irrational. By their own, consistent standards, they were taking justified, if harsh, steps to preserve their race."
I agree. By their standards the "ape" behavior that ensued was the height of irrationality.
"I kind of wonder if the word we'd be using is 'irrational' if they were all unbending male militarists."
I think we both know that if the Silurian military class were male they would never have been called "irrational," and that if Howard Johnson Lizard Pope had been female she'd have been roundly dismissed in some corners as a silly hippy-dippy-mystic type thinking there could be peace.