Dean_the_Young wrote...
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Asari are different than Humans okay, why are we arguing??
Legion: "To apply another species ethics to another is racist"(im am paraphrasing here i can't really remember)
"No two species are identical. All must be judged on their own merits. Treating every species like one's own is racist. Even benign anthropomorphism."
That's a great line by Legion.
It is a great line, and I think it makes sense in real world scenarios.
However the asari were developed to titillate players by virtue of being blue alien supermodels. With that in mind it is both reasonable and commendable to judge them with the knowledge that they are fiction created to a purpose.
Personally I dislike it. It's moral relativism as it's basest even though the Geth advocate a pan-species ideology of development.
It's one of those lines that sounds nice, but is meaningless in practice. It invalidates all standards of measurements of a group other than the ones of its own creation... but such self-evaluation is hardly objective nor does it have any standard compared to others.
A failure to understand the frame of reference of the person, or group, that you're dealing with will make interacting productively more difficult, and depending on the nature of the interactions could be disastrous.
I have occasionally been obliged to immerse myself in foreign communities both for work and personal reasons; it was a striking realisation for me to make that they really didn't see the world they way I did. They interpreted gestures, symbolism and events in a completely different way than I did; as a result they reacted in ways that seemed to me completely unpredictable.
When we spoke about seemingly simple and universal concepts it amazed me that they often not only understood it in a remarkably different way than I was accustomed to, but prioritised it in a very different manner than I did.
They were not stupid people, nor uncivilised and trying to foist my own principles and standards on them would not only have been counterproductive, it absolutely would have been racist.
Morality and ethics are interpreted subjectively everywhere. It may be relativism, but keeping that in mind also makes it easier to navigate socially and diplomatically.
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