No need to re-read your post, I fully understand it - you're blaming the younger folks for dying to you. You're still bringing the bloodlust upon yourself, though, by going into a city and attacking a citizen that the youngers will try to help. You make the decision to attack the younger folk, rather than than just leaving, taking your foe out of the city, issuing a challenge to your enemy, or something similar to such methods. I'm sure no one would interfere with a mutual challenge. Attacking back

at the younger folk is not an automatic reflex. You are ultimately the one that decides if you kill someone younger, and if you get bloodlust or not.

I was not complaining about bloodlust in my post, I was trying to clear up the hypocrisy present on both sides: the hypocrisy of killing younger people, mainly. Both entities must confront their own dark side if any resolve is to come to this conflict. I mean this for both Springdalians and Parrians; neither is completely purehearted and good. Yes, there are respectable citizens in both cities that conduct themselves in a rational manner, but there are also those who, purposefully or accidentally, p

ut a mark on their city. Unfortunately, most people will focus on the negative and point out and magnify the flaws much faster than they will admit to the positive aspects. Maybe it's an effort to rationalize their own foibles; if such is the case, it leads back to my earlier point, of confronting our own dark side.

Caldur of Parrius

Written by my hand on the 26th of Paglost, in the year 1132.