• sbv
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    11 months ago

    “conscripted” is an interesting choice of words. Why’d you go with that one?

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      11 months ago

      Because he’s part of the war effort now o7

      The elephant was taken from a civilian zoo and pressed into service. ‘Conscripted’ seemed appropriate.

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            11 months ago

            OK, so the German Empire probably had some law or policy in place for the requisitioning of civilian animals.

            I am tempted to make a joke about the elephant being a collaborator if it had not been German. But according to wikipedia:

            In modern times, it is considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human animals lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act.