A really odd and somethat scary thought...

[allronix1]

So, I'm a couple chapters into Broken Hearts (the current fanfic on the table). Basic idea is, a month post-Eclipse, Raw calls his companions to the enclave of his tribe to share some "mixed" news with them. the good news being the Viewers want to rejoined the world, and bad news being a spoiler, and the ugly news even more so

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[zcobalt]

For one thing, a society of telepathic empaths would likely lead to a pacific, vegetarian society I'd think (well, perhaps eating of fish/shellfish/non-mammals). Crimes such as theft and assault/rape/murder would be also unlikely-if for no other reason than having a pretty hard time of it concealing-wise! Not that such things would be totally unknown, since certain of the higher apeshave been observed being violent for what appears to be violence's sake, but with sentience as well as empathy/telepathy I'd think it would be very uncommon. Disputes would likely be settled by negotiation; marriages might tend towards being arranged at an early age since elders can matched early in life in relationships with a lieminded, personality-complementing mate/s...mates being very possible in an open society...persons might have a 'main mate' but others might not, just like actual life.
Also, if there were small units of multiply-mated families, there might be more wives in good times, making progeny plentiful and easy to care for regarding nurturing; in hard times of less food and more violence/war/oppression males might be pre-eminent as spouses for obvious reasons of defense, and children be provided better protection. Persons who are homo/bi/heterosexual would be treated equally; those who had inherited cogenital illness would be unlikely to procreate (and less likely to since a group would value all nurturers/caregivers. And so forth..
An interesting idea might be-what if a Viewer child was a sociopath? (Since there are some cases where a deviant violent psycho who commits a series of crimes comes from what one normally thinks of as a 'good' background and caring family still go on to commit horrid acts. So-THERE'S an interesting question; how would a Viewer tribe/society deal with such a person? And what if a PsychoViewer were born, raised, and came into a position of power, either within the tribe or (more likely) on the Outside where they became allied to a supreme-evil type? Hmmmm.....!!