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5/25/2025, 12:30:40 AM
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>I could compel a crow to do something with my superior strength , but it's not as if that creature would like being forced around
I don't think it's about physical strength, considering the whole talk with Chen. It's rather about excluding authority stemming from power, physical probably too, but spiritual as well. Aya seems to speak of that sort of gulf in strength where crows instantly recognise that going against superior person is suicidal and instead willingly cooperate, hoping for benefits and protection.
I think this sometimes happen in human-to-human relations, but it might be hard for a human to reach something like that with crows, if only by the fact that the way we show authority isn't recognisable to them. A direct show of superior strength will be seen as a threat, thus closing opportunity for cooperation. A gentle approach might net you friends, but not servants. Although, if you are willing to entertain such notions, there are stories of mystics and wizards with birds as servants, so maybe the spiritual strength could be somehow showcased in understandable way?
>Cats
Crows are harder to befriend than cats, but generally pretty similar, I think. Also in behavior, crows are very cat-like: curious, once they are familiar with a place they start acting as if they lord over it, they aren't immediately threatened by your presence, but they will swiftly run away if you do something they dislike, while willing to return after a moment. Also rather clean animals. The biggest difference is they don't have this malice many cats do, and they aren't as lazy, but at the same time crows aren't hyperactive like foxes.
The biggest hurdle is that there is very little expectation from crows that you will be helping them, so for a long time they may treat taking food you are giving them as stealing from you, rather than being fed.
>It's interesting because I think many people, especially those that study civics, fall into the trap of Zero-sum hierarchies.
Now that's interesting. I would imagine that people studying societal mechanisms would rather lean into hierarchies as benefiting both sides, even if unequally, considering how humans are rather successful creatures as a whole specie in hierarchical environments.
>I imagine she'll be instinctively sharing magic that would make Buddhists seethe
So the best kind of magic?
>I could compel a crow to do something with my superior strength , but it's not as if that creature would like being forced around
I don't think it's about physical strength, considering the whole talk with Chen. It's rather about excluding authority stemming from power, physical probably too, but spiritual as well. Aya seems to speak of that sort of gulf in strength where crows instantly recognise that going against superior person is suicidal and instead willingly cooperate, hoping for benefits and protection.
I think this sometimes happen in human-to-human relations, but it might be hard for a human to reach something like that with crows, if only by the fact that the way we show authority isn't recognisable to them. A direct show of superior strength will be seen as a threat, thus closing opportunity for cooperation. A gentle approach might net you friends, but not servants. Although, if you are willing to entertain such notions, there are stories of mystics and wizards with birds as servants, so maybe the spiritual strength could be somehow showcased in understandable way?
>Cats
Crows are harder to befriend than cats, but generally pretty similar, I think. Also in behavior, crows are very cat-like: curious, once they are familiar with a place they start acting as if they lord over it, they aren't immediately threatened by your presence, but they will swiftly run away if you do something they dislike, while willing to return after a moment. Also rather clean animals. The biggest difference is they don't have this malice many cats do, and they aren't as lazy, but at the same time crows aren't hyperactive like foxes.
The biggest hurdle is that there is very little expectation from crows that you will be helping them, so for a long time they may treat taking food you are giving them as stealing from you, rather than being fed.
>It's interesting because I think many people, especially those that study civics, fall into the trap of Zero-sum hierarchies.
Now that's interesting. I would imagine that people studying societal mechanisms would rather lean into hierarchies as benefiting both sides, even if unequally, considering how humans are rather successful creatures as a whole specie in hierarchical environments.
>I imagine she'll be instinctively sharing magic that would make Buddhists seethe
So the best kind of magic?
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