http://bendingwind.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bendingwind.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] elisi 2011-08-18 04:22 pm (UTC)

And how do fearful people react to something they see as a threat? They get weapons to bring it down.

That's a really excellent point, and it brings up a very fundamental part of human nature (in my opinion)--that humans are fearful. If something becomes "too" powerful, we fear that it will be turned against us. The best of human nature prepares a way to defend itself against it--the worst, which so often comes into play, then strikes preemptively to defend itself. It's difficult to say which we're seeing play out here, because it's impossible to tell if a future!Doctor has already done something to cause these people to strike back, or if they're just striking because they fear he will.

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