User blog comment:Gundam Legilis/Faunus... inferior or superior?/@comment-116.192.0.20-20140421133544

On the Puritan side--in truth, people have never needed something as insignificant as "facts" or "truth" to give lie to their beliefs. Hitler's justification that because a bunch of people had big noses and came from the Middle East they should all die was contradicted by almost every piece of scientific literature out there, but hey, who needs truth?

I actually think that the faunus and the humans were simply two different groups of "people" that developed very different methods of living that in the end led to the downfall of one group or the other. There is no real "super-advantage" of one over the both, just that each took their civilizations down different paths. I could definitely see the physically superior faunus, in fact, taking single combat more seriously. This would then have had massive repercussions when they fought united and well-disciplined human troops.

The easiest example to give would the the Gallic tribes and the Romans. The Italians were definitely physically inferior to the Gauls--while an average Gaul clocked at 1.8 meters, the average Roman was only around 1.5. They would literally have been like demons to the Legionaires that fought against them, and indeed, one of the most memorable scenes in The Commentaries of the Gallic War (written by none other than our lovable dictator, Gaius Julius Caesar himself) is when Caesar berates his Centurions for not crushing the rumors that the Gauls (ok, technically Germans in this instance) are ten feet tall fire breathing cannibals. No really, ten feet tall fire breathing cannibals.

And, well, so much for physical advantage. With a mere 40,000 legionaires, Caesar shattered every army sent against him, conquered all of Gaul and enacted a genocide that killed over one million of their people.