We've hunted species to extinction for less. Why would this be any different?
I see what you're attempting but you saying they're pariahs doesn't make it so. Most don't even recognize these names - hell, I certainly didn't.
There's a Pratchett quote that goes something like,
"In a universe so full of wonders, it's a marvel that humans invented boredom."
Your post reminded me of that.
More varied formalwear than "suit with some superficial variations" (tux, 2- or 3-piece, colors, tie variety). Broader range of styles.
The third and last entry in Jamisin's Broken Earth trilogy, The Stone Sky. Good God it's great. Hard to break into the series and I always feel like I'm a step behind the plot, but not so much that I've lost the thread entirely and just want to give up. It's a delicate dance between author and reader that takes such a deft and skilled touch that I'm floored by not just the skill involved but the gall it takes to skate so close to totally alienating your audience. But damn does it pay off.
A quote from it I grabbed to share earlier:
When a [society] builds [a city] atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.
What colour would you like your dragon?
Well, let's not exaggerate here. Surely it's saved you no more than ten of them.
I think you win just for originality and not "witnessed very violent happening."
Not that violence isn't fucked up, too, but...Jesus.
It's not strange at all when you consider your own phrasing: calls itself a democracy.
Plenty of places do that. Doesn't make it so.
Aldi generics overall tbh
The words "wild strawberries" never fail to bring to mind this Shel Silverstein poem:
[types out an emote describing how my MUD character is laughing]