"As I said, poison in an environment is difficult to get rid of," he said. "And difficult to contain, as any farmer would know. It wouldn't have been only his crops endangered by the poison, but those of the other villagers as well. And if the poison had gotten into the general water supply it could have harmed not only crops, but people, animals other than the rats, or the land itself."
"In a way, you're making the same mistake that the other villagers had been making. Namely, believing that the most aggressive solution to the problem must be the right one, when in reality that is seldom the case, and often causes as many problems as it solves, if not more. As Tothor was clever enough to deduce."
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Date: 2025-06-01 06:50 am (UTC)From:"In a way, you're making the same mistake that the other villagers had been making. Namely, believing that the most aggressive solution to the problem must be the right one, when in reality that is seldom the case, and often causes as many problems as it solves, if not more. As Tothor was clever enough to deduce."