Kino's Journey

[A Black Falcon]

They could try to flee, but where?

The top of the hill. Wait for it to end. Then rebuild on the same site. That's what any sane (or real) human society would do.

Of course, moving the town would probably be a better idea, but people seem to prefer to rebuild where they were, danger or no... but they don't just sit there and die. Do people who hear of hurricanes coming at their town decide to sit there and die en masse? Of course not, they evacuate, then come back and rebuild! You can't defend how ridiculous that episode was from a believability standpoint. Even in suicide cults some people try to get out of it...

Which brings up an interesting issue. Land, that is. Don't you think that it's a bit ridiculous that the Israelis and Palestinians continue to fight over a spit of land in the middle of nowhere? Of course, because it is irrational. But, it's their land, or at least, that's what they both believe. And they continue to fight and die, often willingly, to try and get it back. If people in the real world are so willing to throw their lives away for a little strip of land, is it really that hard to believe that a fantasy country would be willing to die along with the land that they worked so hard to cultivate?

It's not ridiculous. Land has meaning to people just like anything else does, and that land has great meaning to both groups... it's really too bad that this has led to so much war, but it is understandable given that two groups both want the same land, and for long-time reasons that are not new or going to change anytime soon.