What do you think of Aftran's comparison of humans' predatory habits and yeerk's parasitic habits?
(a) The animals we eat aren't sapient. (b) In general, they're raised for food. (c) There are a lot of people who argue for, and fight for, better conditions for livestock animals.
So I'm going to go with "invalid comparison".
Do you think many of us would empathize with the yeerks if we were born into bodies like theirs?
*shrugs* I'd assume so. I suppose the closest human equivalent would be someone with severe handicaps.
hmm...how about, why do you think many yeerks don't feel anything for their hosts? Especially after so much anguish in the host's mind.
I agree with the above poster who said that they couldn't let themselves empathize.
Do you think there could be a better way? (this one might be difficult though because there's a tendency to think of the YPM and the Iskoort...)
I'd support the use of voluntary or created hosts over the nothlit idea, since, as mentioned earlier, that would result in the voluntary (or "voluntary") extinction of the Yeerks. It's not like they don't have their own culture, or that they're valueless. Ax's sneering about how the Yeerks don't create, but only steal, is kind of...not baseless, exactly, but there are definitely examples of Yeerk-created technologies in the books (though unfortunately the only examples I can think of are in #33 -- and speaking of that, didn't Taylor say something about the Yeerks' extraordinary knowledge of the brain?).
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Date: 2009-07-11 06:46 am (UTC)(a) The animals we eat aren't sapient.
(b) In general, they're raised for food.
(c) There are a lot of people who argue for, and fight for, better conditions for livestock animals.
So I'm going to go with "invalid comparison".
Do you think many of us would empathize with the yeerks if we were born into bodies like theirs?
*shrugs* I'd assume so. I suppose the closest human equivalent would be someone with severe handicaps.
hmm...how about, why do you think many yeerks don't feel anything for their hosts? Especially after so much anguish in the host's mind.
I agree with the above poster who said that they couldn't let themselves empathize.
Do you think there could be a better way? (this one might be difficult though because there's a tendency to think of the YPM and the Iskoort...)
I'd support the use of voluntary or created hosts over the nothlit idea, since, as mentioned earlier, that would result in the voluntary (or "voluntary") extinction of the Yeerks. It's not like they don't have their own culture, or that they're valueless. Ax's sneering about how the Yeerks don't create, but only steal, is kind of...not baseless, exactly, but there are definitely examples of Yeerk-created technologies in the books (though unfortunately the only examples I can think of are in #33 -- and speaking of that, didn't Taylor say something about the Yeerks' extraordinary knowledge of the brain?).