The Only Way to Abolish War is to Make Peace Heroic
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:18 pm
Earlier in another thread I discussed how a number of animals that are traditionally associated with Therians are in decline. Some populations are healthier than others but all of them have lost ground in the last hundred years.
The Therians I view in a similar light. Their numbers and habitat are in decline. On the surface, it would seem that secrecy and their ability to blend into human populations may have helped stem the tide. I believe this is an illusion. If the Therian populations integrated with human populations fully and behaved as humans, then there would be no issue at all. They would be hidden and there would be no reason to hunt them. What's more, they would be nigh impossible to hunt because they would be providing no evidence of their existence.
This is not what happens. Many of us here on this site have been called upon to respond to unprovoked Therian attacks (especially were-wolves). Had those attacks never happened, then our attention would not have been drawn to these Therians. Had our attention not been drawn, we would not have hunted them down and ended the danger they represent to humans. There are hunters who are more proactive but the majority are reactive and what they are reacting to is violence from Therian sources.
I mentioned proactive hunters. Those that look for Therians before Therians have engaged in violence. It is well known that I am one such interested party. I do not do this alone. In fact my family is quite active in this field using our family owned detective agency to gather this information. We do not assume that Therians that are discovered are hostile and we do not attack based on the fact that an individual is identified as a Therian. They are usually put into one of three categories.
The first is confirmed hostile. This is an individual who can be proven to be violent and murderous. Evidence of their crimes is carefully collected and stored. These individuals must usually be dealt with sooner rather than later depending on their hunting habits.
The second is suspected hostile. This is where some behaviours suggest potential for violence or other criminal activity. If there is no hard proof of being a threat against humans, they must be given the benefit of the doubt until such evidence is uncovered. As more is learned they can be moved to the hostile category or occasionally into the peaceful category.
The third is the peaceful coexistence category. This is for individuals who are identified as being Therians but there is absolutely no evidence or indication that they are engaged in hostile or criminal activity. These individuals may be observed for awhile to confirm that they belong in this category but are otherwise left alone to live their lives without interference.
There is a fourth and very small category that has only recently been initiated. This category is allies (and potential allies). This category is for Therians who are willing to work with us towards accomplishing common goals. The file is very small but I hope it will eventually grow until it's the largest one.
Not all proactive hunters are as discriminating. Many take a better safe than sorry approach and I can understand why. There have been Therians in the suspected hostile category that killed innocent humans and were then moved to the hostile category. Too late unfortunately, to save the innocent lives lost. But innocent lives go both ways. There are Therians that are innocent and they mustn’t be lumped into the same category as those that are murderous scum.
The better safe than sorry approach costs innocent lives on the other side and invokes feelings of rage and revenge that might not have otherwise been present. There are also cases where opportunities for cooperation have been lost because of the better safe than sorry approach. In the long term, in order to be safe it is essential to be sure.
As I said however, there are a number of proactive hunters who do not discriminate and kill any Therian they identify. No thought is given to whether or not they are actually killers or a danger. This behaviour as much as continued Therian aggression is contributing to the decline in Therian populations (not to mention feeding the cycle of aggression with Therians who were not originally hostile). Most of these hunters work alone, so it’s hard to believe that they actually have that much impact on the Therian population overall. Or so I thought.
Over the last year I have been receiving more and more evidence of the existence of a group of organized Therian hunters. Rumours of such an organization have existed for many years. Decades at least and as we research we start to discover it may actually go back centuries. Actual evidence of this organization is another story.
Last year information about the whereabouts of confirmed hostile Therians was released to known hunters. As expected these hunters started tracking down and killing the Therians that were revealed to them. Some interesting trends began to surface.
First of all, only information about confirmed murderers were released. And always it was screened to ensure that potentially innocent families were left out of it. So if there was a confirmed murderer with an innocent family, then that hostiles name was not released. Some Therian families were targeted and slain but not as a direct result of information released.
The known hunters were provided only with limited information about specific targets, with no targets being ‘shared’ by multiple hunters. Despite this, we noted a few occasions where hunter A was targeting and killing hostiles that were on hunter B’s list. These hunters often had no known connection to one another so how they were sharing this information was something of a mystery. What was more, we noticed that they would work in coordinated efforts and other people not previously known to be hunters were brought in on these hunts.
This was the first strong evidence of an organized group of Therian hunters communicating and coordinating their efforts with one another. This activity occurred primarily in North America and Western Europe. There was no evidence of hunters in North America aiding those in Europe. Whether this is due to the existence of two separate organizations or simply due to being separated by an ocean is unknown at this time.
In any case, these hunters are definitely the pro-active kind that subscribe to the better safe than sorry mindset. We began to observe their activities. They have been seen tracking down Therians and observing them for extended periods of time. Their investigations can be lengthy and are very meticulous as they look into every aspect of the Therian’s life. In one particular instance they tracked down a confirmed killer (who’s information we did not provide to them) and killed not only that Therian but her entire family who may have been unaware of her activities. There was no sorting of the guilty from the innocent. Not even a nominal attempt.
I suspect that this organization (or organizations) may be responsible for the continued decline in the Therian population. If so they are also responsible for forcing the Therians into using extreme measures to enforce secrecy. They are also responsible for creating more enemies than would otherwise have existed. They help foster an atmosphere of paranoia and feed a cycle of hate.
We are still at the stage of learning all we can about these hunters. What to do about them is a matter that will have to be addressed in the near future. I have some ideas and it is possible that several birds might be killed with one stone.
Ideally I would like to see increased communication and cooperation between humans and Therians wherever possible. There is precedent for such in both the distant and immediate past. There is also hope for the future. That hope is a fragile thing and it is threatened on all sides. Regardless I think it is worth striving for and taking risks over.
I guess only time will tell who else agrees.
P.S. The title of this thread is a quote from James Hinton.
The Therians I view in a similar light. Their numbers and habitat are in decline. On the surface, it would seem that secrecy and their ability to blend into human populations may have helped stem the tide. I believe this is an illusion. If the Therian populations integrated with human populations fully and behaved as humans, then there would be no issue at all. They would be hidden and there would be no reason to hunt them. What's more, they would be nigh impossible to hunt because they would be providing no evidence of their existence.
This is not what happens. Many of us here on this site have been called upon to respond to unprovoked Therian attacks (especially were-wolves). Had those attacks never happened, then our attention would not have been drawn to these Therians. Had our attention not been drawn, we would not have hunted them down and ended the danger they represent to humans. There are hunters who are more proactive but the majority are reactive and what they are reacting to is violence from Therian sources.
I mentioned proactive hunters. Those that look for Therians before Therians have engaged in violence. It is well known that I am one such interested party. I do not do this alone. In fact my family is quite active in this field using our family owned detective agency to gather this information. We do not assume that Therians that are discovered are hostile and we do not attack based on the fact that an individual is identified as a Therian. They are usually put into one of three categories.
The first is confirmed hostile. This is an individual who can be proven to be violent and murderous. Evidence of their crimes is carefully collected and stored. These individuals must usually be dealt with sooner rather than later depending on their hunting habits.
The second is suspected hostile. This is where some behaviours suggest potential for violence or other criminal activity. If there is no hard proof of being a threat against humans, they must be given the benefit of the doubt until such evidence is uncovered. As more is learned they can be moved to the hostile category or occasionally into the peaceful category.
The third is the peaceful coexistence category. This is for individuals who are identified as being Therians but there is absolutely no evidence or indication that they are engaged in hostile or criminal activity. These individuals may be observed for awhile to confirm that they belong in this category but are otherwise left alone to live their lives without interference.
There is a fourth and very small category that has only recently been initiated. This category is allies (and potential allies). This category is for Therians who are willing to work with us towards accomplishing common goals. The file is very small but I hope it will eventually grow until it's the largest one.
Not all proactive hunters are as discriminating. Many take a better safe than sorry approach and I can understand why. There have been Therians in the suspected hostile category that killed innocent humans and were then moved to the hostile category. Too late unfortunately, to save the innocent lives lost. But innocent lives go both ways. There are Therians that are innocent and they mustn’t be lumped into the same category as those that are murderous scum.
The better safe than sorry approach costs innocent lives on the other side and invokes feelings of rage and revenge that might not have otherwise been present. There are also cases where opportunities for cooperation have been lost because of the better safe than sorry approach. In the long term, in order to be safe it is essential to be sure.
As I said however, there are a number of proactive hunters who do not discriminate and kill any Therian they identify. No thought is given to whether or not they are actually killers or a danger. This behaviour as much as continued Therian aggression is contributing to the decline in Therian populations (not to mention feeding the cycle of aggression with Therians who were not originally hostile). Most of these hunters work alone, so it’s hard to believe that they actually have that much impact on the Therian population overall. Or so I thought.
Over the last year I have been receiving more and more evidence of the existence of a group of organized Therian hunters. Rumours of such an organization have existed for many years. Decades at least and as we research we start to discover it may actually go back centuries. Actual evidence of this organization is another story.
Last year information about the whereabouts of confirmed hostile Therians was released to known hunters. As expected these hunters started tracking down and killing the Therians that were revealed to them. Some interesting trends began to surface.
First of all, only information about confirmed murderers were released. And always it was screened to ensure that potentially innocent families were left out of it. So if there was a confirmed murderer with an innocent family, then that hostiles name was not released. Some Therian families were targeted and slain but not as a direct result of information released.
The known hunters were provided only with limited information about specific targets, with no targets being ‘shared’ by multiple hunters. Despite this, we noted a few occasions where hunter A was targeting and killing hostiles that were on hunter B’s list. These hunters often had no known connection to one another so how they were sharing this information was something of a mystery. What was more, we noticed that they would work in coordinated efforts and other people not previously known to be hunters were brought in on these hunts.
This was the first strong evidence of an organized group of Therian hunters communicating and coordinating their efforts with one another. This activity occurred primarily in North America and Western Europe. There was no evidence of hunters in North America aiding those in Europe. Whether this is due to the existence of two separate organizations or simply due to being separated by an ocean is unknown at this time.
In any case, these hunters are definitely the pro-active kind that subscribe to the better safe than sorry mindset. We began to observe their activities. They have been seen tracking down Therians and observing them for extended periods of time. Their investigations can be lengthy and are very meticulous as they look into every aspect of the Therian’s life. In one particular instance they tracked down a confirmed killer (who’s information we did not provide to them) and killed not only that Therian but her entire family who may have been unaware of her activities. There was no sorting of the guilty from the innocent. Not even a nominal attempt.
I suspect that this organization (or organizations) may be responsible for the continued decline in the Therian population. If so they are also responsible for forcing the Therians into using extreme measures to enforce secrecy. They are also responsible for creating more enemies than would otherwise have existed. They help foster an atmosphere of paranoia and feed a cycle of hate.
We are still at the stage of learning all we can about these hunters. What to do about them is a matter that will have to be addressed in the near future. I have some ideas and it is possible that several birds might be killed with one stone.
Ideally I would like to see increased communication and cooperation between humans and Therians wherever possible. There is precedent for such in both the distant and immediate past. There is also hope for the future. That hope is a fragile thing and it is threatened on all sides. Regardless I think it is worth striving for and taking risks over.
I guess only time will tell who else agrees.
P.S. The title of this thread is a quote from James Hinton.