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Originally Posted by Inky
Humans, with sufficient weaponry and ill-will, can be pretty darn dangerous to other humans too. That doesn't mean that it makes sense to summarise other humans as "bad guys".
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No...but it
does make sense to treat
strangers with caution, until you know something about them. The more foreign the greater the level of caution (not panicky fear) that is reasonable.
The Fae and their ilk are more foreign than the most foreign human, more alien than that guy from around the planet, because they are
not human.
Which shapes all interactions with them.
Note that, as I observed upthread, individual contact with aliens in a modern setting carries the exact same overtones of danger and fear, when you look at it rationally. When you listen to some of the stories of people claiming UFO contact, a lot of them are freaking terrifying. Many people have observed that there are a
lot of parallels between UFO contact stories in 2021 and stories of interaction with the Fae in 1421, some even speculate that it's the same phenomenon at work.