Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
But if you really wanna throw down the, "social construct" gauntlet, then look at the societies constructed by our storytellers within the story. They largely hold similar values to societies in the real world. Then look at Venat's actions. Even within her own society, she enacted civil war, and broke a lot of their customs before that, to boot. In other words, Venat did things that many people within our story world should take issue with, but don't, because the scriptwriters wrote them to not. She destroyed her own society, violating what you have specified is the reason to have social constructs in the first place.
After all, we can just refer to the cast's mouthpieces and their own pronouncements...



...and...

“To ignore the plight of those one might conceivably save is not wisdom─it is indolence.”

Guess they just need to be confronted with a supreme deity ready to sunder them, for their memories to be jogged a little.

Excellent post.