Talk:Ghoul/@comment-64.233.173.19-20160317122556/@comment-129.174.182.104-20160317125811

This is true, at least from a purely rational-moral human point of view. Ghouls need to consume humans to survive, and at present this almost invarably means taking human lives*. Not only is there the inherent moral concerns about killing people, but the loss of indivivduals decreases the supply of human capatial (draining the talent pool, essentially) and costs whatever productivity that person would have provided for the rest of their life. If you estimate.

This is more signfigant that it might sound. Using the U.S. as an example (because I have the demographic data on hand), the median age is 36 years and the medain full-time income is a bit over 40,000 dollars per annum. If we assume Alice the ghoul eats Bob the Perfectly Staticstily Average Human, then Bob dies at 36. Had he retired at 66 and made the same anount of money each year until then, Bob's death cost society about 1.2 million dollars in lost productivity. Because Bob would have spent much of the money he earned at some point in his life, the money he dosn't earn as income becomes lost income for someone else (and lost tax revune for the government, but that's anonther story).

Of course, 1.2 million is a lot of money, but not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. But if we assume Alice eats an average of ten people a year, then her feeding habits cost about $12,000,000 per annum. Mutliply this by a fifty year actively hunting lifespan and the number of Ghouls in the world (which I cannont find a solid figure on...), and you see the problem.


 * I say that coexistance is impossible in a general-practical sense, at least on a large scale, but that is the major cavet to this arguement. However, the only method by which it might be attained, convicing Ghouls to depend on humans to provide them with naturally expired corpses through a Human legal apratus, would demand a signfignat loss of indenpendance from the Ghouls as as whole. For some reason, I don't feel like this would go over well.