[Fin] The Murder-Free Hotel

[Florien]

Yeah, Like I did! I used to do things one way, and see things through an archaic lens, and now I see them differently through a lens that works for me. Like, once I worked from the assumption that sapient life was special and unique and better, and then I learned about ants, and how they fight complex wars, farm, herd livestock, have complex division of labor, build enormous structures, and under certain circumstances, some species of them can create vast interconnected networks of colonies and form huge supercolonies that span entire countries, effectively creating a vast ant country with a federated, decentralized system of government!

Kellensea gets increasingly excited-sounding as she regales people with ant-facts leading up to her point.

Anyway, it was at that point that I realized that the only unique things I could think of that sapient sorts do is engage in proxy wars and invent external information storage technologies. Which, those things are cool, I've engaged in proxy wars myself, great fun, but I'm sure if you let ants do whatever long enough, a species of ant would evolve that would be capable of engaging in proxy wars, and artificial external information storage is kind of pointless for ants when they have automatic external information storage in their scout trails. So that's why I stopped thinking that sapient alive things are necessarily more valuable than not-sapient alive things. And if I'd never stopped to evaluate my worldview, I'd never have decided that!