Quote Originally Posted by PorxiesRCute View Post
This was actually the most realistic part to me! Think about how many people say they love animals and then turn around and eat them.
That's not really comparable.

In any case it's not inherently hypocritical to "love animals" but also use some individual animals as sustenance (so long as those animals are well cared for), but specifically for the Hhetsarro, what we know is that they treat the movement of the rroneek herds as a guide for their own movements while also at least occasionally killing individual rroneek for necessary resources.

For a tribe that treats this ebb and flow of nature as the guide to their lives, having a natural predator take a single rroneek is something I would have expected is maybe a little sad to them but not something that needs to be prevented.

It would have been kind of interesting if Koana did all his heroics and then the chief was like, "well, we did need to kill the deadly apex predator heading towards the village, but we do let nature take its course for things like that" and it became a further learning moment for Koana instead of him getting a single revelation of the whole philosophy in one go.