User blog comment:BlackTempest/RWBY wars/@comment-4830106-20130807191701/@comment-5130342-20130807192856

Somehow I get the feeling that your first idea was more plausible.

I mean, basing from EP01's intro, mankind hasn't been around that long, and keeping the Grim at bay seems to be the agenda of the millennium. Ergo, any and all human vs human conflicts would very likely be very small and isolated incidents, with Dust-related explosions and stuff as a side effect...