Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130821214539/@comment-6078851-20130828150811

you misunderstand me, i'm not refering to the right to win but merely the right to survive, and i never said the other races don't commit atrocities upon their own, of course they do/did, and is part of the reason why i think why they forfeight their right to survive. to me the right to survive is based on killing - to kill in order to eat, or in self defence is justified. to kill to exert dominion over others, to me at least, is an utterly reprehensible notion.

i was under the impression that chaos entities are immortal, but only if there is sentience to provide the emotional fuel. remove sentience and chaos, while it will exist for a time off of their own malevolence they will eventualy fizzle away to nothing, no?

tyranids - i am most indubitably a fan of tyranids, but fret not, you can say what you like about them and it won't change what i think of them, as i said everyone's entiltled to their opinion. and yes they are animals, but so are we, and the eldar and the tau etc. while you may think otherwise i don't subscribe to the idea that humans (or any of the races) are anything other than just differently evolved animals. as for the traits you say tyranids don't have - will, conciousness, reason, emotion, creativity, individuality and aspirations, i disagree: whilst every tyranid is slaved to the hive mind (which has the concious aspirarion to survive, and creates new tyranid forms {creativity} to surmount obstacles {i know i said i wouldn't mention the hive mind but tyranids are the hive mind}), there are many forms which do have an individual, reasoning conciousness. the most numerous forms, termagants, gargoyles, hormagaunts etc, are pretty much wild animals slaved to the hive mind but every hive tyrant (of which there are probably more of than there are humans) is an "incredibly intelligent and completely self-aware" (codex quote) creature, which are supremely capable of reasoning out a problem and creatively solving it. as for emotion i would agree that they are (possibly) emotionless, but that feels like the egocentric view of "if something doesn't think/feel as we do, then it doesn't."

and while the imperium, and others, believe they are following their destinies, who's to say that it isn't tyranids' destiny to eat everything?

and peace indeed, fellow organic, to one and all, except in 40k where their is only war :)