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Originally Posted by KoR-evo,March 24, 2007 12:42 pm
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Originally Posted by hundredand8,March 23, 2007 04:42 pm
This idea that they rather be dead now than be dead later doesn't quite work for me. We have seen that the Others hold trials, so they would have a chance to go free.
Its either as Rocco says that they couldn't live with the thought of being branded as a traitor (even if the trial can't prove they are guilty and so they can go free). Or leading strangers into the territory has some severe consequences of a different nature. Like a terrible curse will fall on the whole community, a disease will strike or something. Superstition in other words, and haven't we been there before, with the whole Danielle/disease story line that seems to have fizzled out?
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But they wouldnt..they have very strict laws on certain issues - unless the Guv'nor Ben gives the say so then they'd probably face death by their own and that is perhaps a shame on their lives (in terms of it being undignified and all that). Yes, the trials do offer some form of democracy (perhaps the most systematic form of democracy that we have seen on the island), however I believe that certain actions would mean that a trial would be a formality and that they would therefore rather be killed in battle (or whathaveyou) than be killed by their own Others or commit suicide.
Im not sure about the 'superstition' angle  ..i dont think it's because of anything like that - i think it's more logical in that they have codes of conduct which they have sworn to uphold. Though you never know, that coundown timer with the word 'Underworld' has left an indeligible mark so who knows, lol
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Let me try another angle on "superstition". See if that works for you.
Assuming the Others have indeed been on the island for a very long time. Ever since someone built Stonehenge-on-the-Hill and the statue with four toes, most of which is now in the ocean (well I don't know that for a fact, I mean the statue lying in the ocean, but you get what I mean
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Who says they hold rational beliefs? Who says the Reformation happened on the island? Maybe their society is still in a state of quasi religious or medieval belief systems? A belief system that includes sacrificial offerings to their god ("Him" anyone?) and very strict Dos and Don'ts that have no basis in reality. And on an island like this one who can blame them, this is not exactly the place to believe in strict scientific explanations to start with.
(No, I don't mean Britain
, I mean the island on Lost)
So in this case the belief may well be that if a person who is not "good" enters the "sanctuary", something terrible will happen. Who knows, maybe something terrible happened last time, by coincidence rather than causality. Bea and Mikhail may have thought that the only way to prevent that from happening again is to not show these "not good" people the way.