Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25555436-20150726193923/@comment-25555436-20150728124309

SpiritedDreaming wrote: I have a question: wouldn't overriding their fear also override their flight or fight response? In hindsight, I don't know. That response is tied to fear, although it activates in response to a threat, to something dangerous. It normally activates when we're scared, though I don't think it's exclusively when scared. All I can say is that in the best of cases it may need more tweaking, and in the worst of cases it may not activate.

@Anon:

-You know, when I said government, I meant it would be those same politicians who would use it. And what kind of moron would use it on themselves voluntarily, knowing the possible consequences? (Don't worry, I do get your point).

-Atlas has the numbers and enough strength to keep the population under control (even if through a police state-like methodology) and can easily leave some robots behind to protect the territory just in case. Now, of course it would be easier to take, but no nation is stupid enough to try that.

Atlas has the SDC, main manufacturer of Dust which everything uses, and they make and sell the Atlesian robots. If a Kingdom tried to take the territory they just cleared out, they can say goodbye to those 2 things. Their security will stagnate unless they get to be self-sufficient, and without Dust their economy will plummet. Only idiots bite the hand that feeds them.

Plus, Atlas could just exterminate the Grimm in their side of the planet, but not the ones near the other Kingdoms. They grow, and can easily sell more AKs to the other kingdoms since their own would be busy keeping order in Atlas, a task that doesn't require as large a number as Grimm-purging.