That is lazy on my part. However mosquitos are intelligent creatures and deserve life as much as any other. They just happen to be obligate paracites. Which is uncomfortable.
Goblins are shown to be roughly chimpanzee smart, with similar temperament. The sexual paracitism was created by a dark God that hated people if I recall the lore correctly. Yes it is all fake and artificial. However if we aren't going to let the writer write what is the point of even having the conversation? Given the McGuffin constraints the show does interesting things with them. There is a bunch of dumb edgelord shit but under that is stuff more interesting than most random anime have. It is like French new wave cinema except the bar is lower.
I don't like scorched earth tactics like "mosquitoes have some measure of intelligence therefore killing a mosquito is exactly like killing a human being therefore maybe mosquitoes should never be killed or maybe killing humans all the time if they're annoying is also fine" arguments. There's degrees and extents and nuance that that argument is missing.
Goblins are shown to be roughly chimpanzee smart, with similar temperament.
So is exterminating chimpanzees acceptable because they do a violence sometimes? That argument is a nonstarter for me.
It is not exactly like killing a human. You should still try to find other ways. Similar goblins are not exactly like humans. Which is a point you are missing here. You can't have it both ways. If they are exactly like humans raiding villages and taking slaves would probably warrant war. Especially if you are a poor farm village. What could they do? Do they jail them? That is alot of mouths to feed in a hard winter. The nobility is not going to help them now. They definitely aren't going to pay for goblin rehabilitation. These aren't modern people. They don't have modern resources.
It is not exactly like killing a human. You should still try to find other ways. Similar goblins are not exactly like humans. Which is a point you are missing here. You can’t have it both ways. If they are exactly like humans raiding villages and taking slaves would probably warrant war. Especially if you are a poor farm village. What could they do? Do they jail them? That is alot of mouths to feed in a hard winter. The nobility is not going to help them now. They definitely aren’t going to pay for goblin rehabilitation. These aren’t modern people. They don’t have modern resources.
I can and have heard these exact arguments for why immigrants/Muslims/unhoused and more simply must be dealt with in unfortunate but necessary ways. It's a disgusting argument and no amount of writer fiction contrivance hides the stench of cryptofascism in it.
That is lazy on my part. However mosquitos are intelligent creatures and deserve life as much as any other. They just happen to be obligate paracites. Which is uncomfortable.
Goblins are shown to be roughly chimpanzee smart, with similar temperament. The sexual paracitism was created by a dark God that hated people if I recall the lore correctly. Yes it is all fake and artificial. However if we aren't going to let the writer write what is the point of even having the conversation? Given the McGuffin constraints the show does interesting things with them. There is a bunch of dumb edgelord shit but under that is stuff more interesting than most random anime have. It is like French new wave cinema except the bar is lower.
I don't like scorched earth tactics like "mosquitoes have some measure of intelligence therefore killing a mosquito is exactly like killing a human being therefore maybe mosquitoes should never be killed or maybe killing humans all the time if they're annoying is also fine" arguments. There's degrees and extents and nuance that that argument is missing.
So is exterminating chimpanzees acceptable because they do a violence sometimes? That argument is a nonstarter for me.
It is not exactly like killing a human. You should still try to find other ways. Similar goblins are not exactly like humans. Which is a point you are missing here. You can't have it both ways. If they are exactly like humans raiding villages and taking slaves would probably warrant war. Especially if you are a poor farm village. What could they do? Do they jail them? That is alot of mouths to feed in a hard winter. The nobility is not going to help them now. They definitely aren't going to pay for goblin rehabilitation. These aren't modern people. They don't have modern resources.
I can and have heard these exact arguments for why immigrants/Muslims/unhoused and more simply must be dealt with in unfortunate but necessary ways. It's a disgusting argument and no amount of writer fiction contrivance hides the stench of cryptofascism in it.