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--- kavkem:society:qasai [2020-01-11 19:38] – created pinkgothic
+++ kavkem:society:qasai [2020-03-18 19:48] (current) – pinkgothic
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 kavkema are taught how to fairly quickly kill themselves at an early age and almost all wild kavkema carry a blade with them to do so - to strike into their jugular and tear the blade upwards to the jaw, in a single, decisive motion. This gesture is practised with shallow thorns so the motion is less at risk of getting botched when it is needed (and to prevent the associated sensation coming as a complete shock).
-Killing //others// is either done in the same way or with a snapped spine - this is practise on prey animals.
+Killing //others// is either done in the same way or with a snapped spine - this is practised on prey animals.
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 [[:kavkem:ryrhakenem|Ryrhakenema]] are more reluctant to kill themselves than other kavkema are, due to their responsibility as keepers of stories. They may 'prefer' even several years of capture to death and may take a long time (often longer than they have to decide) to decide whether the chance of rescue is too slim to stay alive.
+In addition to such philosophical concerns, it turns out that even kavkema have a survival instinct, and not all kavkema have the mental fortitude (regardless how much they may have trained for it) to kill themselves. A kavkem that has decided that in theory, //qasai// would be the right answer, has about a fifty percent chance of actually seeing it through.