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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Humanity and Forerunners were created by the Precursors, we share similar DNA and multiple times in Cryptum we are called brethren. We both felt we deserved to uphold the Mantle. We conflicted with the Forerunner's ideals and the war gave them an excuse to lash out against us. Combine that with the fact we refused to tell them how to defeat the Flood should we return, it only gives them the excuse to "reduce the competition" so to speak.
So why didn't they just kill us? Christ, this whole thing absolutely reeks of fanfiction.
How about you stop being a cheap bastard and just buy the damn book before making ridiculous opinions on material you haven't read.
and why are you guys trying to explain it to him? Let him stay ignorant about it.
Because part of the point of this forum is to answer questions for the uninformed, no matter in what manner the questions are presented (in this case, shear ignorance).
Yes he was wrong in not reading the books then -blam!- ing about it, but that doesn't mean we can't try and explain it.That's a good attitude to keep in the back of your mind but different circumstances warrant different reactions. You can get an explanation, a fairly good one in fact, from some users on this forum. However, media can't be interpreted by a single person. Good stories don't mince words and all of the events happen for a purpose. It's very easy to say the Forerunner devolved humanity and very easy to respond (without having read the story) that "that's stupid". If you read the book, however, you could see the how and the why and make a better judgement about that plot element.
What Seggi was doing was taking interpretations he saw on the forums and making value judgement about the story as a whole based on them. That's the wrong way to go about it and no amount of explanation on these forums will change that.
Grey and Cobra, however, are wrong in letting the direction this forum is heading to degrade the quality of their own posts. Feel free to take a hostile attitude towards those who deserve it guys but realize very few actually do. Assuming everyone else is ignorant from the start and then posting based on that premise is doing just as much damage as the factually incorrect posts.