>>50132758
>Kosuzu helping people is normal
Don't see any reason to assume it isn't normal if helping each other is normal in smaller communities in real life.
It's also mentioned that literally "Society cannot function with all humans possessing the same social standing and rank." in reference to the human village, so in the present, they function with less hierarchy than you imagine.
>Human villagers are happy on average
You have an easy avenue of proving this wrong, tag every human that shows up in games, manga and so on and check how many are happy, indifferent or genuinely unhappy and you'd find that most are probably in the former two. Making the case for them being unhappy universally will always be harder objectively, but you can prove it, even though you won't.
>ummm the humans don't go to their festivals
The only instance of them rejecting festivals we're ever clued into is when they occur at Reimu's shrine or when the weather sucks really badly
>Yukari was lying about killing people
We're never clued into her killing anybody.
>Aya was lying
Absolutely canon about a huge chunk of her escapades.
>Gods can stop
Yeah they can
>Prayers can make you
Most of anything, yes, they can even give you fortune or give you shit fortune, which literally happens
>Human villagers would be unhappy in the outside world
The idea of taking them into the outside world would have to come with a convincing argument that they would be happier in the outside world which you can't define because you can't define the living standards using what's on screen nor can you define what happiness actually entails or if gensokyo has it and whenever you do it's based on a bunch of creative interpretation (i.e. headcanon) like anything else
>surface level interest
The ones that have a deeper interest have been shown so exceedingly few times that there's no reason to believe they are a significant majority or anything but outliers.
>Hakurei barrier doesn't exist
Must be delusional if you bring this up just so you can stay mad that there's no actual canon answer to them being able to leave or not wanting to leave or not.
>youkai and humans are friends
The folklore says they are, there are half-youkai, there are humans going deep into youkai territory just to engage in fun games. And objectively speaking even 'suzu is friends with multiple youkai.
>ice cream is cheap and affordable
We're never given any pricing or such, but shitting out an icecream casually is pretty impressive considering they're under some sort of fanfic famine
>Gensokyo has zero food issues
Post them having any food issues.
>Byakuren and Kanako did not view the human villagers as livestock
Yeah they didn't, they viewed them metaphorically as being part of a zoo, but the real fact of the matter as told throughout other stories is the simple reality that Gensokyo acts in symbiosis between humans and youkai and we're shown the multiple ways that they get their own pros out of it, which are pros you don't believe because your view of the setting is predicated on a few cases where they look cynically at what's going on rather than the actual ground-level experience. Just like how sometimes in a country, people are reduced to statistics by callous governments who aren't careful- the difference being that they are pretty damn careful in Gensokyo. Someone like Marisa makes this pretty clear in that conversation herself.
>>50132820
>d-disproved!
She never mentions killing them, so you are relying on headcanon. I recall this exact diatribe last time 5 months ago where you kept insisting that Yukari meant she's killing people instead of y-know, as told through the other print works, maybe having people talk to them to get them on the side of balance.
>Late Edo
>That's how ZUN described it!
You're too focused on it being written. The difference between that and the other stuff I brought forth was that ZUN wrote the other print works, decided he wanted to include running water, electric lights, ice cream or at least approve of it being there. So by admission, ZUN has changed his mind and it only appears Edo period in spirit, insofar that it looks old-times and countryside. That's literally what you see in the print works.
>Meanwhile, do you have any evidence that nobody in gensokyo dies of starvation?
You keep claiming you have evidence of this happening in the first place but you keep asking me for proof to prove you wrong. It seems you answer yourself: There's no famine in Gensokyo. There at least has been famine in NK, if we're to believe them that they hadn't had any since.
They have enough food until you see the print works complain that they don't.
>The guy who got kicked out of human society because he learned magic?
Society? He got kicked out of the school of the master diviner for using magic in his techniques. There's nothing to say that magic gets you kicked out of the village wholesale in the exchange.
