[Peter isn't going to mince words on this. He thinks this culture is a little nuts.]
Which I know probably isn't the anthropologically sound, culturally relativistic approach, but when the Queen is saying the culture has festered and gotten corrupt over the last 10,000 years, and the world is dying, I think it's fair to say they've got their wires crossed on a few things.
To be fair, I try not to be judgey about that kind of thing but you can definitely say it's weirdly and unnecessarily intricate. Also, since there's a lot of power imbalance between the castes and different gems, and a lot of random violence, it seems like it'd be hard for some people to tell someone else to back off if they don't want to be flirted with. Because of potential consequences.
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[Peter isn't going to mince words on this. He thinks this culture is a little nuts.]
Which I know probably isn't the anthropologically sound, culturally relativistic approach, but when the Queen is saying the culture has festered and gotten corrupt over the last 10,000 years, and the world is dying, I think it's fair to say they've got their wires crossed on a few things.
To be fair, I try not to be judgey about that kind of thing but you can definitely say it's weirdly and unnecessarily intricate. Also, since there's a lot of power imbalance between the castes and different gems, and a lot of random violence, it seems like it'd be hard for some people to tell someone else to back off if they don't want to be flirted with. Because of potential consequences.
Which is no bueno.