Like, okay, a Yeerk/Controller freaks you out, but why does that give you the right to decide for someone whether or not to allow them to take on a Yeerk/become a Controller? I never said that it did (in fact, I said the opposite. " On the hand, people should have the right to do what they want as long as it isn't hurting others but on the other...the idea just freaks me out.") I acknowledge that I can't decide what choices other people make. I just don't have to like their decisions or be all that bothered by what I see as the likely actions of most or all countries in outlawing Controllers.
Most likely they will just want to live their relative lives out normally. I'm concerned about little abuses, things most people would not see as abuses. The two have an argument or can't decide who should be in control at any particular moment or which action to take. Maybe one wants to go skydiving and the other has a paralyzing fear of heights. Who wins these confrontations? The Yeerks...unless they choose to allow the host to win. They may just randomly take over for a moment at any time and the host will never be able to do that. They will never be able to be truly equal. At most, the Yeerk can give them half-control but it's *their* gift.
Another thing to consider, actually: what if Yeerks morphed and became Nothlits...and in turn became hosts themselves? It would create a type of symbiotic species system, much like the Iskoort. I don't see how that would be symbiosis or how the Iskoorts were even symbiosis. Sure the Isk would die without the Yoort and vice versa but that's just genetic engineering. Take out the fact that the Isk have no choice but to be controlled by the Yoort becaue otherwise they'd die (the Yeerks could have done that to the Hork-Bajir or the humans and that wouldn't make it symbiosis) and it's easy to see what the Yoort get. They get senses and a body. What are the Isk getting? Life? They'd have that without Yoort tampering. Did the Yoort create the Isk? That shouldn't give them the right to enslave them forever. And even if that's how it's always been so the Isk don't know to mind, that still seems wrong.
And symbiosis is not where one party is a parasite and the other is accepting the parasite into their life. Both sides need to get something out of it and the humans would get along quite fine without the Yeerks. Some companionship or whatever doesn't really seem like it's in the same league as having access to the world at large.
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Re: This got a lot longer than I'd intended...is my Poli Sci major showing? :P 1/2
Date: 2012-05-03 01:08 am (UTC)Most likely they will just want to live their relative lives out normally. I'm concerned about little abuses, things most people would not see as abuses. The two have an argument or can't decide who should be in control at any particular moment or which action to take. Maybe one wants to go skydiving and the other has a paralyzing fear of heights. Who wins these confrontations? The Yeerks...unless they choose to allow the host to win. They may just randomly take over for a moment at any time and the host will never be able to do that. They will never be able to be truly equal. At most, the Yeerk can give them half-control but it's *their* gift.
Another thing to consider, actually: what if Yeerks morphed and became Nothlits...and in turn became hosts themselves? It would create a type of symbiotic species system, much like the Iskoort. I don't see how that would be symbiosis or how the Iskoorts were even symbiosis. Sure the Isk would die without the Yoort and vice versa but that's just genetic engineering. Take out the fact that the Isk have no choice but to be controlled by the Yoort becaue otherwise they'd die (the Yeerks could have done that to the Hork-Bajir or the humans and that wouldn't make it symbiosis) and it's easy to see what the Yoort get. They get senses and a body. What are the Isk getting? Life? They'd have that without Yoort tampering. Did the Yoort create the Isk? That shouldn't give them the right to enslave them forever. And even if that's how it's always been so the Isk don't know to mind, that still seems wrong.
And symbiosis is not where one party is a parasite and the other is accepting the parasite into their life. Both sides need to get something out of it and the humans would get along quite fine without the Yeerks. Some companionship or whatever doesn't really seem like it's in the same league as having access to the world at large.