Really...? I mean... I'd say it's the opposite. That you want to battle like we do.
[it takes him a moment to adjust to the surreal situation of talking to a green psychic creature, but it's not long before he's back in Full Monologue Mode. sounding, as usual, like he swallowed half a library to spit it back up in convenient exposition dump.]
Depending who you ask, you could say humans have an intrinsic desire to fight. We've always had a healthy appetite for violence and destruction, and while there's outliers on either side, the omnipresent nature of war in the history of humankind is pretty clear about the fact we're consistently willing to do terrible things to advance our own situation.
And some of us-- more than a lot of us wants to admit, I think --have an innate taste for violence. End up addicted to the fight, always wanting to get stronger or get bigger thrills. Or just because they don't know what to do with themselves besides fighting. Everybody's got their own reasons, but once they have the taste of blood in their mouths? Not a lot of 'em go home.
But with as much violence that goes on between animals, it always seems to have some kind of purpose. Survival, mostly. And although a small minority of animals have been known to enact violence for its own sake-- some wild chimpanzees, for example --that's the exception, not the rule.
I'd assumed you were being groomed as weapons for human conflicts, but... maybe your kind are more humanlike than I'm giving them credit for, if you have that same drive.
[that is certainly. one very dismal way to look at it.]
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[it takes him a moment to adjust to the surreal situation of talking to a green psychic creature, but it's not long before he's back in Full Monologue Mode. sounding, as usual, like he swallowed half a library to spit it back up in convenient exposition dump.]
Depending who you ask, you could say humans have an intrinsic desire to fight. We've always had a healthy appetite for violence and destruction, and while there's outliers on either side, the omnipresent nature of war in the history of humankind is pretty clear about the fact we're consistently willing to do terrible things to advance our own situation.
And some of us-- more than a lot of us wants to admit, I think --have an innate taste for violence. End up addicted to the fight, always wanting to get stronger or get bigger thrills. Or just because they don't know what to do with themselves besides fighting. Everybody's got their own reasons, but once they have the taste of blood in their mouths? Not a lot of 'em go home.
But with as much violence that goes on between animals, it always seems to have some kind of purpose. Survival, mostly. And although a small minority of animals have been known to enact violence for its own sake-- some wild chimpanzees, for example --that's the exception, not the rule.
I'd assumed you were being groomed as weapons for human conflicts, but... maybe your kind are more humanlike than I'm giving them credit for, if you have that same drive.
[that is certainly. one very dismal way to look at it.]