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Originally Posted by Triple_R
If this society was truly that concerned with morality, we wouldn't see people so ready and willing to kill mere children, which most advanced societies consider an extremely immoral act. No, this world is pragmatic to the extreme, arguably amoral in nature.
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All societies are pragmatic by nature and saying that humans in shin sekai yori are amoral is going a bit far, if that was true killing thy neighbor just because his tree throws dead leaves in your property would be ok.
I have not read the light novel or the summaries, but I think the morale of the story is that the time of men has already passed, humanity has always had a knack for destruction (as the extinction of several giant mammals that shared an ecosystem with early men testifies) and with the development of pk humans became just too good at destruction.
Mind you, that is not the first time something like that has happened, there are evidences that in prehistoric times there were giant octopus that were atop of the food chain (on the deep sea, obviously), had long life expectancy and brain capacity that dwarfed ours exponentially. Where are they now? Well, octopus (like spiders) tend to eat their young. The solution evolution provided? Smaller octopus that live little after copulating (male) or that die at childbirth (female).