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With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

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Mr Zoat said:
I'm amused by the idea that the shameful thing Londo's grandfather did during the occupation which G'Kar used to blackmail him was 'got behind on his beatings quota' or 'was actually nice to the help
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Londo: He-he actually refused to beat them when they displeased him! Allowed them time to rest after they worked! Even helped them when they were moving some materials in the compound! What sort of proud Centauri does that?!
 
https://youtu.be/tF27OtzAslY

"They didn't wake the dragon. They broke into his cave, stole his gold, ate his food, and pissed on his leg. Then Earth paid the price in full."

If I'm reading this right, humanity only survived because the Minbari found that human souls are Minbari souls. Which is to say, for religious reasons, they decided to spare humanity.

While they may want peace, given that humanity never actually had a chance at fighting them… well, it would be nice if the people in charge worked to make sure they didn't piss the Minbari off again, but they just decided that they were invincible, didn't they?
 
boo600 said:
but they just decided that they were invincible, didn't they?
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Yeah.

Humanity in the Babylon 5 setting isn't the intelligent and insightful version from Star Trek, so they are prone to doing a lot of stupid things.

Heck, in the RPG books about the Vorlons and Shadows, Justin, a high ranking Shadow agent, mentions that one of the reasons he signed up with the Shadows was because he saw that the Minbari surrender made humanity think that they were somehow now big boys on the galactic scene, and Justin wanted to show them how stupid that is.
 
boo600 said:
Minbari found that human souls are Minbari souls.
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I thought that was because Minbari have Valen's/Sinclair's DNA and even when he turned himself into a Minbari he still has some human DNA left. Not that Minbari souls are litteraly reborn in human bodies. I thought that is just how the Minbari interpreted it. I could be completely wrong of course.
 
Jankl said:
I thought that was because Minbari have Valen's/Sinclair's DNA and even when he turned himself into a Minbari he still has some human DNA left. Not that Minbari souls are litteraly reborn in human bodies. I thought that is just how the Minbari interpreted it. I could be completely wrong of course.
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Nope, you're right.
 
I always thought that the minbari just completely misunderstood what the triluminary glowing actually meant.
 
Jankl said:
Wait does she really have that much trouble understanding how bad attempted genocide is? Is this some Minbari cultural thing?
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My understanding of the Minbari's history is that their only other wars would have been ones with races fully converted / enslaved by the Shadows. These would have been fought to the point of de facto Genocide with considerably greater justification.

Their society is also greatly fractured and someone who is not in the Warrior Caste would have likely never had reason to consider the morality of war or what constitutes a war crime.
 
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