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This is something of a [[Truth in Television]] as well, since many of the so-called "barbaric" cultures were only so to the outsiders. Also compare the opening paragraph with humanity's prohibitions on human-abuse vs animal-abuse.
Usually part of [[Cultural Posturing]]; also a subtrope of [[Moral Myopia]]. See also [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]], [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]], [[Even Evil Has Standards]]. Contrast [[In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves]] and [[Hunter of His Own Kind]].
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* ''[[Fallout]]'': Although the Death Claws, America's genetically-engineered leftovers from the all-destructive [[Great War]], are extremely aggressive creatures little better than animals that attack humans on sight, it's implied (from the modified talking Death Claws in the second series) that their basic pack-based society has a rigidly hierarchical, peaceful, ethical pack-based basic society. They were extremely loyal to the pack as a whole, treating it as a family unit rather than having individual families. Fights within a pack are unheard of, and the pack's leader controls many aspects of life, such as choosing and matching female and male deathclaws for reproduction.
* Gets deconstructed all the way in ''[[Arcanum]]'', whose elves claim that they do not kill another elves because if an elf dies "unprepared", his\her soul will never be able to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]. (Tarant's elven thugs aren't so polite, though.) Naturally, when Wrath, a dweller of [[Hidden Elf Village]] is killed by poison, the first and only suspect is his ''dwarven'' apprentice (who also was stupid enough to sign a ''life-long'' contract with the elf). It's up to you to prove that Wrath was killed by an elf Sharpe for a woman they almost fought for and whom Sharpe now lives with as husband and wife (almost a perversion in "free-love" elven society) - or dig it even further and discover that "perverted" family idea actually came from Wrath, that Sharpe actually never killed him and that the bastard has''committed suicide'' solely to frame Sharpe.
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', the Kytinn - as in, D'Vora's race - have this policy. Much like the colonial insects they evolved from, they never fight among each other. This is one reason D'Vora has such contempt for humanoid races, as they refer to her kind as "vermin" despite committing violence against their own kind. Of course, D'Vora is more than willing to war against, kill, torture, and at times, eat humanoid races if it benefits the Kytinn.
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