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Originally Posted by Zoks
You're right, I meant Saazbaum. And I know that part of Slaine's background, my point is he was still too young to come up with a full understanding of the cultures around him. Especially considering he was on the move. Eleven is not an age where you can fully appreciate the nuances of different cultures. Frankly, Saazbaum was the one who enlightened him on the true nature of Versian society, so why would I expect him to have any understanding of Terran society? All of his explanations to the princesses focused on how they have more resources on Earth, not on the different cultures.
Also, what are you talking about "justified" for? If he is fighting for Vers, then why does he need to be justified to destroy the Terran base? Now if he is fighting for some sort of future for Terrans, then that heavily depends how much you agree with ideology of the ends justifying the means. I'm not one who agrees with that, because usually the means have a detrimental impact on the ends. In this case, he is crippling the Terrans militarily, so any hope for them relies on the mercy of the Versians. If he was fighting in a matter that evened the two sides, then I can see your point with him considering the Terrans' side. But he is not. Everything he is doing militarily benefits the Versians.
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Um, you don't have to be fully mature in order to know what it's like to be human, do you? You don't know you're human, and how it's like to live as as human until you're an adult? I don't think so. If you disagree, that's fine, but I myself strongly disagree with your logic.
Even as a young child you have a sense of self, a sense of who you are, and a sense of your culture and home. You might not understand every single nuanced thing about it, but that's actually most people. You at least know what it feels like to be part of that culture and community. Slaine knows what it's like to be a Terran, just as much as Inaho, who has lived there only six more years than he has.
As for the second part, I don't remember ever saying the word "justified".
And I think that if you're doing subterfuge as Slaine is obviously doing among the nobles, you don't show your real hand openly. Being fair to both sides, would make him weak in front of the Martians , a group that already doesn't like or trust him simply from the issue of his birth. It would also make it extremely easy to see what he's trying to do, which would mess up any progress he wanted to make. You sometimes have to do things that you wouldn't want to do when you are aiming towards a higher goal. Slaine obviously finds no joy in what he's doing, but it's something that has to be done. He knows how the Vers nobility works, and if he wants to get far with them, he's going to have to operate in that realm.
You might not see what he's trying to do now, but that's a good thing, since that means those of Vers can't see it either. Obviously, whatever his plans, even Eddelrittuo who became friends with the Terrans, trust him and seems to indicate that she knows what he's doing, so you might want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Especially since it was him and not Asseylum who first proposed that Terrans and Martians could eventually live together. It was she who actually took up his dream.
The way the doctor was going on about it indicated that pushing the eye's limit would take over his brain or something....
