The House of Path has many unusual members. These are episodes in the lives of several of them. Can a changeling queen learn to love? Can an immortal alicorn deal with death? Can an ordinary pony learn to deal with life?
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Missing some spacing in the final bits of dialogue here.
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That's odd. The spacing was there in the original document. Oh well, it's fixed now.
I needed 12 year teology, 4 year philosophy, a realy shity childhood and a passion for mitholigy to reach this mentality.
How in the name of the One Above are you so briliant???!!!!
okay that last part confsued me, I admirt I forgot Hype's wife but seriously what was that last part.
8890849 Simple we see that not all Chrystallis's brood from Saddle Arabia was killed though Path claimed to have committed genocide
So House Path looks to its ten tenants and seven amendments to guide its actions. I think its safe to say that to keep its reputation as the "Shield of Equus," its actions would have to stand up as moral when judged by the provisions of the Geneva Convention by comparison. Protocol 1 defines non-combatants to include civilians and some members of the belligerent force with specific duties (chaplains, medics, etc.). So eggs, nymphs, caretakers, tunnelers, etc. of Chrysalis' hive would be non-combatants.
Not harming non-combatants is not "mercy" as is posited here. It's "not committing a heinous war crime."
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You are ascribing human motivations to an alien species. Remember that all changelings are bound to their Queen's will. Way back in "Change of Life", it was shown that despite being a peaceful Harvester, Cogs was forced to attack the ponies in Canterlot. He despised his actions but nonetheless obeyed. The same is true for every type of drone, even for the lowliest of them, and with their hive under attack, they would be under obligation to fight in its defense, even without specific orders to do so. So every drone would be considered a soldier under those circumstances, even if they were not good at the task.
The nature of the attack was of mass-destruction, wiping out eggs and nymphs in impersonal blasts and hive collapses. Experience had shown that Chrysalis was skewing breeding towards more aggressive drones, and a larger proportion of soldiers, so those were potentially huge problems if they tried to avoid killing the young. There was no opportunity to be choosy and determine which would be safe to keep. The surviving nymph only survived by virtue of being carried at the time by the nurse who protected it. The warriors that swept through the hive looking for survivors were not expecting to find the lone nymph, and could have left it to its fate, but they took a chance and brought it back to try to raise it right.
As for the tenets - many of these evolved as a consequence of the House's early actions, including this one.
By the way, it seems AlaskaIsCold is not the only one who mixes up the words "tenant" and "tenet".
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Neither is the Doctor.
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I just wanted to point put that when your heart stops, you are in fact dead... sure its fine to have two ideas of life and death, one technical, and the other philosophical... but you really cannot deny the medical definition...
While this might be just a misunderstanding on my part, I would like to object to this.
Philosophy at its core relies VERY HEAVILY on logic (with very few exceptions) and this itself relies heavily upon SUPER PRECISE definitions. Theres a reason that philosophers offen write entire books just to define one or two terms.
You CANNOT hold a philosophical discussion with dynamic terms, or else you will talk right past each other. It is all well and fine to have an open mind when it comes to analyzing different philosophies and their definitions, but the definitions themselves MUST be well defined (in 99% of cases, yes there are philosophies that doubt the existence of logic, and doubt the possibility of creating definitions that tryely mean anything)