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Artyom@lemm.ee 11 months agoThis is horrible but I can’t help but laugh. “Okay, about 80 people are stuck here because their ships ran aground last night. No one knows they’re here, so they have no way to leave unless we help them, so the logical decision here is to simply murder them until there are none left. All in favor of this, say aye!”
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think it was more of, “hey, who the hell is suddenly robbing us?!”
They didn’t have the internet and daily news to tip everyone off. There’d just suddenly be stranded people near by, and if they decided to pillage before asking… I could EASILY see being hostile as a reasonable response. Not necessarily the KoS law, unless they really did just resort to pillaging and theft often.
Something_Complex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Language barrier makes it harder to ask for help
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yea, I don’t envy their situation for sure. Just that it didn’t necessarily have to start from malice. As you point out, it may not have even been malice from the thieves, maybe even if they were literally stealing.
Coming from a punitive place will always miss intention.
Something_Complex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No no I was agreeing with you. They try to negotiate, all the Icelander see is 30 strangers in their property…end badly