Separatist Peoples wrote:Kyoki Chudoku wrote:”I know I’ve already said I’m iffy on this,” said Tokiko, not really expecting this to go very well, ”But he makes a point. Our old Tengo enemies where the kind of people who’d throw children into battle. Said children sung as they killed us, smiled as we killed them, and generally showed no signs of compassion, remorse, or free will. They built walls out of the corpses of their own dead, sent out child suicide bombers, and I think it was all because their leaders had absolute control and wanted to drive us all crazy. I’d make a case that such opponents shouldn’t be considered to have any rights, and that any kind of so-called atrocity against ‘em should be justified.”
"Right. Meeting atrocity with atrocity is the best way to solve a complicated problem. Ambassador, have you considered that maybe, just maybe, using the same tactics makes you as bad as your enemy? Or that, having free will and choosing barbarity, you're even worse than your enemy?"
"They are a hive mind, we have tried and they cannot be reasoned with they only wish to consume and feel no remorse, what are we to do? Try to talk it out when our last attempts have ended in complete slaughter of our people and we can't jsut leave them along as they crash aganist our rimworlds relentlessly. We have no other chocie"
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