Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4403232-20140411230237/@comment-24198837-20140615005151

LuckyBullet95 wrote:

You have such a naive view of RWBY's world based on your experience in ours. There are key difference including a very real, daily threat to human existence posed by the White Fang. (Imagine if the taliban lived IN the USA and CONSTANTLY terrorised the place? First off - I understand that Remnant is not Earth. Humanity is not America; the White Fang are not Al-Qaeda. I've never said anything along those lines.

Secondly, you're wrong. Plain and simple. The White Fang does not, and never has, posed a threat to human existence. I don't know if you meant something else, but the existence of an entire species is never, in any universe, going to be threatened by a terrorist group. Terrorists - people who create terror to push their adgenda - always arise from an inability to defeat what they fight against. It's what bad people do when they can't win.

Yes, the WF can kill people. Lots of people. Yes, they're dangerous. And yes, people are very afraid of them. But if you believe for a second that a rag-tag group of half-insane Faunus could threaten the existence of the entire human race, you're the naive one.

We already know that the Faunus - an entire species motivated by possibility of freedom and equality (two of the most driving forces known to man) nearly lost the Faunus war. Yes, they won - but it's clear from the humans that we've seen that the human army in said conflict wouldn't have even come close to the entire human population. So, the entire Faunus species beat some of Humanity. Good job. Now beat every human on the planet with a minority of Faunus.

It's akin to expecting the a few UNSC frigates to defeat a Covenant armada in the Haloverse. They're just too few, and too weak. That is the perfect description for the White Fang. They're too few, and they're too weak.

To wrap up, I'll use your analogy - to Terrorists and the USA. I don't know if you're aware, but literally hundreds of domestic terror plots are foiled each year. They are here. They do attempt to "...constantly terrorize the place". And we stop a good majority of them (Without sniper-sythes and minigun-toting robots, I might add). Also, factor in this - what's going to inspire more people to mass-murder innocents? Oppression? Or the (Supposed) word of God himself? If you compare the WF to Al-Qaeda, you'd have to include the fact that Al-Qaeda is more violent, more motivated, and deadlier... and America still stops most of them. And we're a counrty. Not an entire, united species. Humans on Remnant should be more powerful than America, and the White Fang seems weaker than Earthern terrorists. It doesn't take a genius to figure out whose gonna win that fight.