WARNING, POSSIBLE SPOILER AS THIS DISCUSSES EVENTS IN THE THRONE OF JADE PREVIEW THAT APPEARS IN THE AMERICAN EDITION OF HIS MAJESTY'S DRAGON
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I'm going to make some suggestions that might help clear up the miscommunications that seem to be plaguing your discussions with other posters to the community. You are free to ignore them; I am not the community moderator, only another poster.
(1) I'm not sure how you're posting to LJ, but whether you're using a client or the Web interface, it might be a good idea for you to draft your posts in a text document and edit them *before* posting, rather than after.
Specifically, spoilers are prohibited by the community guidelines and many LJ users consider long posts extremely rude, so you will set yourself on a better footing by using an LJ-cut in the initial post rather than editing one in later.
(2) LJ is an international phenomenon and so is English-language publishing. His Majesty's Dragon was published as Temeraire in the UK and Australia three months before the US edition came out, and those editions did not include previews of Throne of Jade. Not marking or cutting your post for Throne of Jade spoilers is naturally
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...add to that that Temeraire can kill hundreds at a blow, so far as we've seen, if and only if those hundreds are on/in some structure the destruction of which is going to seriously injure them. Correct me if I'm wrong but I wasn't under the impression that exposure to his "sonic weapon" directly killed humans or dragons so much as stunned and deafened them.
Re: 4, what you obviously do not comprehend is that while dragons are physically capable of destroying the human race, they are psychologically incapable of it, or at least unwilling/uninterested. Because, as is set forth in the books and as people here have been trying to tell you, dragons' minds do not work like human ones.
Oh, and if you don't want people to assume you're ignorant, it's rather bad form to then turn around and boldly state you know more than they do. One of the fun things about the internet... the person you're debating with might be a semiliterate high school dropout from Hicksville, Missouri, or they might be a history professor from Oxford U. with three shelves' worth of lit to their name.
And speaking of claiming authorship and other credentials - title of this book, please, or your claim isn't going to impress anyone.
Yes, they are unwilling to destroy the human race because they apparently would rather interact with the human race than "eat" it. This is what the facts of Temeraire's world suggest. Otherwise there would be no humans, just as if huge carniviorous dinosaurs survived the Cretaceous extinction, there would be no humans.
(1) I'm not sure how you're posting to LJ, but whether you're using a client or the Web interface, it might be a good idea for you to draft your posts in a text document and edit them *before* posting, rather than after.
Specifically, spoilers are prohibited by the community guidelines and many LJ users consider long posts extremely rude, so you will set yourself on a better footing by using an LJ-cut in the initial post rather than editing one in later.
(2) LJ is an international phenomenon and so is English-language publishing. His Majesty's Dragon was published as Temeraire in the UK and Australia three months before the US edition came out, and those editions did not include previews of Throne of Jade. Not marking or cutting your post for Throne of Jade spoilers is naturally ( ... )
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Oh, and if you don't want people to assume you're ignorant, it's rather bad form to then turn around and boldly state you know more than they do. One of the fun things about the internet... the person you're debating with might be a semiliterate high school dropout from Hicksville, Missouri, or they might be a history professor from Oxford U. with three shelves' worth of lit to their name.
And speaking of claiming authorship and other credentials - title of this book, please, or your claim isn't going to impress anyone.
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