Ignoring the fact that's not an actual inevitable rule, you still wouldn't expect the degree of stupidity of seeing them as Literally Sub-Sapient Livestock.
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(Glances at 19th century chattel slavery and years of heavily conditioned propaganda depicting African-Americans as a borderline inhuman subspecies) I'm really not following your train of logic here. Funniest thing is, you're usually bemoaning "sympathetic forces of evil."
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Replying to @fiddlersgreen92 @loudpenitent and
Hector duped into believing hey, maybe these faschy vampires with dreams of empire aren't so bad, they have *culture* until Lenore pulls the rug from under his feet made me think about your thread a few weeks back about a hero who invades Heaven and leads Evil to conquer Good.
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My point was less about the evil per se, although to be absolutely clear I actually find Ellis' sheer misanthropy profoundly tiring, and more just the entire mindset makes no fucking sense. Chattel slavers claimed they were benevolent stewards, even if they were evil fucks.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @fiddlersgreen92 and
Like I could see "humans are a necessary sacrifice for us to preserve our knowledge and culture" or whatever, if that's the angle Ellis is taking of Vampires as Immortal Knowledge, or even "human lives are brief sparks compared to immortal joy." (1/)
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Replying to @loudpenitent @fiddlersgreen92 and
But the way the vamps talk abt human beings among themselves is less like former humans themselves and more some weird alien species. It doesn't ring true. (2/2)
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Replying to @loudpenitent @fiddlersgreen92 and
Also for the record I actually have no problem with sympathetic forces of darkness. It's more Anything That Isn't Counterculture/Seems Good Is Evil I hate.
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I mean I think the vampires are just avoiding cognitive dissonance about having to eat the people they once were. Not all of them are like that - I don't think Lenore legitimately doesn't like humans and she seems a little squeamish about the harvesting
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
Yeah I like totally disagree with this Dehumanizing humans is, ironically, the most human thing humans do Societies with an explicit model of slavery and nobility (some people aren't human, some people are more human than human) greatly outnumber ones without
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
It's the easiest thing in the world to just suddenly decide that something you need to do to survive that happens to harm other people is justified because those other people don't count and had it coming It's a necessary survival mechanism, it's built into "human nature"
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Evolution doesn't select for species that actually would just sit around and die because they feel too bad about eating their prey, or for denying food from their rivals
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