Ecaiki wrote...
IanPolaris wrote...
It would be a resort though. Farmers flood out rodents every year btw and the rodents are just as dead. Frankly you are "saving the rabbit from the fox" when you take your state position to it's full logical conclusion, and yes it's ridiculous. As for "not taking life unless needed" there is nothing about bloodmagic that requires you to take life. It requires life energy. So does a blood transfusion.
Don't know where you pulled that idea from, the logic I used doesn't lead there, at all.
Sure it does. If you value all life equally and object to any life being spent, then you are morally obligated to save the rabbit from that evil fox. Seriously, that is the logical extension of everything you've stated. Sorry if that doesn't suit you, but it is.
Blood magic requires life to fuel it. Sure some abilities don't require a full life sacrifice, but some more powerful spells (like the one Jowan would have used to save Conner) that do. A blood transfusion is not the same thing.
Actually it is. A blood transfusion is a direct injection of someone else's life energy (blood) in order to save a person whose vitality (blood) is at critically low levels. In fact using bloodmagic to heal can be thought of in game terms of exactly that: A blood transfusion from you (the life energy donor) to the target (the life energy recipient).
And you get to determing how one properly should "earn" to eat their meat? Please.
It's the same logical extension of your stated position and it's silly. All life requires death to survive. Even vetegarians. It's an instrinsic consequence of the second law of thermodynamics. That being so, no all life is equally precious. Human life >> Animal life, and bloodmagic doesn't even require life to work. It requires life energy which need not equate to death.
Of course not, I'm not a god. However nature has determined that earning one's meat involves catching and killing something. If you can't do that then you don't deserve it.
Not always. You can trap, you can get others to do it for you, etc. All these are found in nature (and not just with human beings). Expand your horizens.
Not true, a herbivore (to extend this to the animal kingdom) can eat leaves, or fruit, both of which don't require the death of the providing plant. In fact most plants want their fruit eaten, as it spreads their seeds (along with free "nourishment") to other parts of the area.
Sure it does in the same way you claim that bloodmagic does. The plant had to use it's life energy to make those leaves and fruit, and the cells in those leaves and fruits are most assuredly dead after you digest them (except for perhaps the seeds that are designed to withstand this of course). That doesn't make it evil but it is a fact of life. Furthermore even plants get their energy from the sun which is dying as we speak (abeit over the couse of billions of years but it is) to supply that energy. It's all a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics.
You're deluding yourself if you think life and life energy can be seperated like that, they are one and the same and blood magic requires it to function.
Except modern blood transfusions and even your eample of fruit and leaves provide direct evidence that you can in fact seperate life-energy from life in the sense that blood magic doesn't have to kill anyone.
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). Seriously though, his research is very important, and it seems stupid to stop it when its potential good vastly outweighs the evil needed to complete it. 
