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>>353119
>In the spirit of taking things to their logical extreme, I suppose this means there have been 'evil' Scellor? You know, bomb-dropping, anarchy-sowing, terror-inspiring, genocide-napalming, that sort of thing?
Hmm. Well, that's a bit of a delicate subject. Sometimes, some scellor do indeed do quite terrible things to other scellor, but that's almost always found to be the result of... um. "Mood tide"...? The word doesn't translate well. There are flows of excess emotion that drift around in the Undermind, and sometimes they surge up and sort of... earth themselves on weak-willed scellor. It's just a kind of madness, really. Every species has some mental problems that crop up now and then.
As for a scellor just being totally selfish... well, it's rare. Caring for the species is built in, not just psychically but actually, you know, how our brains are built. It does happen, but generally even those scellor don't actively try to injure the species. After all, they'll eventually die and reincarnate themselves; the benefit of the species is just as valuable to the individual, in the long term.
We have a limit on leaving their possessions "to ourselves", legally. We can pass resources through surviving friends back to our reincarnations, but that requires us to, you know, have friends.
>Or, even worse, a Scellor whose sole drive for sentience was to bring pain or death other Scellor?
It's never happened to my knowledge. And, as mentioned, it's very hard for scellor to hide crimes. Assuming it is a crime, of course. Pain, at least, isn't always inflicted, uh, non-consensually. If you know what I mean.
>>353146
>I'd like to get to know you better. Do you remember when you first gained sentience? Any other interesting past lives? People you used to know? Do you have a favorite food? What's scellor cooking like, anyway?
I'd rather not talk about when I first became sentient, thank you; it's one of the very few things in a scellor's life which can be really personal, if only with aliens. Other lives, though? Well, I was one of the first "xenothropologists" of our people - that is, a student of extraterrestrial cultures. I met a lot of interesting aliens. Spent a few lives doing that, actually, because it was quite dangerous. I worked on one of the sub-teams that worked with the Law on legislation allowances particular to our species, and that was... um. Sort of interesting. As for my favourite food, there is this one sort of bean sausage that comes from Tenenainiun Ij. It's very good. Very subtle flavours.
Scellor cooking often lacks finesse, I'm afraid. The best cooking tends to come from species with more cultural diversity than ours.
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