History Main / BlueandOrangeMorality

*** But if you see a human catching fruit flies specifically to pull their wings off, or starve them, or whatever, you're probably going to think of him as sadistic. Nyarlathotep doesn't seem to be incidentally killing, but going out of his way to screw with people.

** That almost makes them sound like BloodKnights; most things are valid targets, except for things that can't defend themselves.

* ''ChronoTrigger'' fans can't seem to agree on [[http://chronocompendium.com/Term/The_Ethics_of_Lavos.html the ethics of]] [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Lavos]].

*** That stand for theological Values Dissonance: When you belive that disrespecting your task of feeding the Gods with blood will bring the end of the word well, you had to have a thing for human sacrifice. And being invaded was not only because of Quetzacoalt, they also lost a proper war.

** To be fair, the only information they got was from Jack, who barely understood Christmas himself, SoYeah.

*** Very little has been said that can definitively be taken as fact, so there's still plenty of room for WildMassGuessing in regards to the Reapers. It's entirely possible [[spoiler: that humanity was being turned into a new Reaper merely to make up for Sovereign having been destroyed.]] Or maybe not.

* ''GunnerkriggCourt'': What are the grounds for a true and solid friendship between the fairies? Cool hair. The two aforementioned fairies, funnily enough, happen to be orange and blue-haired.

* Ireland had a legal system several hundred years ago called Brehon law, which included such elements as the punishment for a murder being a large fine paid to the family of the victim. Where it gets interesting is that, shortly after Ireland regained partial independence from the UK and plans for a new national constitution were being drawn up, many Irish politicians were seriously considering overhauling the legal system and re-introducing the Brehon system. Fortunately they didn't (though the 1937 constitution, despite several referenda, still contains a fair few passages which are abhorrent to modern readers).
** Actually, the tradition of paying off killings was pretty wide spread through Europe, and more ValuesDissonance than Orange and Blue, as it's a practical way of settling blood feuds before they begin. The alternative to paying off the family was to have them kill one of yours, and since gold (or whatever currency the area happened to use) were considered far more valuable then than they are today (more as providers of status and therefore power than actual trading commodities) it seemed perfectly reasonable to put a price on a life. Especially if it could stop further bloodshed. A very civil arrangement, For a time before organized prisons and federal laws.

* In ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'', we see Nale {{Completely Missing the Point}}'' of his [[HornyDevils Succubus]] companion's [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0394.html displeasure]], though by then he could get a clue. Likewise it never seems to occur to her that Nale might not like hearing about how she had sex with other people four times in a mere three ''hours''.

Has nothing to do with Bucknell University, The University of Illinois, The University of Virginia, The University of Florida, or Auburn University (the colors of all of which are blue and orange, albeit different shades in each case). Nor the Chicago Bears.

* There was a minor example of this on ''Voyager'': diplomatic relations almost broke down with one alien race because that race was nauseated that there could exist a culture that ''ate food in public''.