|
Since I am just starting out, It would be helpful to get suggestions. Private message me on the forums if you have
a suggestion.
Since we are not yet fully comforable with the idea that
people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at
sociable, tool-making creatures who are risen from creation and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals or foes, but freinds
who are, in essance, of the same intellect and inteligence as we are, therefore making them just as good as us. We are all
on one path, the path to the shrine of intelligence. And yet, even though I yearn to see love and help between villages, that
must be worked for, and maybye not even possible. But, to the best of my givin abilities, I will try to explain to all that
the neighbor who kills for food should not be deprived of what he seeks so deperately. I'm not stating that you let him steal
from you and take what you earned. I am simply stating that if you do not deprive him of food and shelter when he needs it,
he will not resort to foolish yet desperate acts. If he does, do not hate him, but do not trust him. For, he will soon learn,
being deprived of his only friend's trust thrusts deeper than any dagger. If he asks you to forgive him, ask him why. Do not
strike out in vengence. Do not break him. Do not even so much as hurt him, or you will be him. You may ask, "why does he not
tell me any further on how to deal with my neighbor? Why does he not lecture me more?" Well, the answer to that is simple.
You make your own choises. I only wish you to learn from mine, and others, mistakes.
-Demosthenes
|