Why Do High Elves Condescend Upon Other Races?

[Suika 111]

~Upon seeing the other fellow Mali'aheral speak down upon the other races, Suika has realized that when High Elves condescend on other races, it provokes them to attack her culture.  Suika loves her culture and wants it to prosper, so she decides to keep any comments she may have about the ignorance of other races to herself.  She decides to advise others to learn from her mistake.~

 

Dear fellow Mali'aheral,

 

It has come to my attention that when we condescend on other races, and tell them that they are ignorant, they are provoked to attack us. When other cultures attack us, it hinders progress and health.  We all know that progress and health are important, so perhaps we should keep our comments to ourselves so that we may be healthy, and have increased progress. The urge may be great to tell a lesser being that he or she is indeed lesser, but for the name of progress and health, may we hold our tongues so that progress and health may follow, that this great race will survive.

 

Sincerely,

Suika L'Siol

 

P.S.  If the urge is too great to hold back, perhaps think about opening a school to teach the other races how they can rise from their lesser state that we may have less to complain about.

[Suika 111]

-Reserved-

[Bircalin 332]

Bircalin would cry with glee, had he heard this himself.
Unfortunately, the isolated walls of the Mali'aheral district reach too far for his well-tuned ears to hear.

[Stag 3230]

*Blinks, his head tilting to his left as he grabs hold of his silky coat and wraps himself in it. Iatrilemar furrows his brow as he listens but is distracted by a small leaf floating in the wind past him and adverts his full attention to the leaf floating on by and completely misses the second half of the small speech.

 

Turns his focus back to the Mali but notices she is already leaving. A slight frown crosses his face and he decides to walk back to his home, adding a little hop to his step as he crosses the wooden road in the Mali'Aheral district.*

[Mithradites 1168]

A small letter is left on the notice-board under the original. It is written neatly in what appears to be a deep, gold ink.

 

To Ms Suika L'siol.

 

So that you shall not misunderstand anything I write in the following letter (being as people tend to skew the logic in most of my statements), I wish to relay to you that the curbing of your tongue is abhorrent in my eyes, as it should be to any mali'aheral. 

 

Firstly, I would like to express concern for your health, on account of your wish to pander to the illogical emotional responses of the lesser peoples. If we are incapable of telling a human they are, indeed, inferior to us due to their short life-span and repulsive adherence to religious dogma, then how are they meant to understand their faults, and better themselves for it? Your idea for a "school" will be entirely unsuccessful, due to this overlaying ignorance.

 

Secondly, who is to say what is "condescending" and what isn't? Are you implying that we leave the district every day to simply insult others for their inherent stupidity? Everything I speak is truth derived from observable fact, and I do not understand why anyone would derive offense from stating such things. If they were to approach me, and tell me the mali'aheral were inferior, I would be interested to hear their evidence and reasoning (or lack thereof, usually). I refuse to not speak my mind, as I have no understanding of insult derived within verbal prose. Only words spoken against the maehr'sae hiylun'ehya truly invoke my ire, due to the sheer ignorance of the speaker.

 

If you silence your mind for the benefit of the fickle emotional integrity lesser peoples tout, then so be it. However, you will receive no respect for such actions from myself, or other truly pure mali'aheral. 

 

Diligence in the face of ignorance.

 

maehr'sae hiylun'ehya

 

-L. Sullas 

[Stag 3230]

*Notices a note on the board with relatively the same speech that he had heard... He thinks for a bit and comes to the conclusion that he may have been daydreaming the speech while looking at the note* 

 

 

"I think... I may be insane..."

 

 

*Blinks and begins striding off once again, a smirk on his face as he hums a light tune*

[Suika 111]

~Another letter is pinned under the first in response~

 

To Mr. Lucion Sullas,

 

There are two ways to tell a human that they have a fault. There is constructive criticism and there is insult. Rather than speaking down upon the humans, notifying them of their fault, it would serve us well to speak in a way that does not to provoke them to attack us. An attack on Mali'Aheral culture is a hinderance to progress and health.

 

Secondly, you of all should surely know that your words have provoked anger from the other races. You of all should surely know that there are many ways to communicate the same point. If a human takes offense to your words, he or she will only block out what you say. If you, instead, speak in a way that they do not take offense, they will, perhaps, discover the fault you wished to tell them about.

 

You say that you do not insult, but you are not in the body of the ones you speak to. The ones you speak to cry out that you have insulted them.  In the end, you have communicated nothing to the other races because they are not willing to listen to you. Why persist? Why not change the way you speak to them so that your intention, pointing out their fault, will actually be communicated rather than disregarded which was not your original intention?

 

Logic in the face of absurdity.

 

Suika L'Siol

[Birdwhisperer 1174]

Moved to the Great Library. It shall be sorted into appropriate category shortly.