Vae -- new sense organ

[sythyry]

And, if you were giving your entire species a new sense organ, what would you want it to be?

The sense organ I would give mine, I shall call the thlume.  The gleaming faceted short horn it would be in shape, curling under the chin like a goatee.  The correct perception of the emotions of people nearby would it provide, and --- this is the elemental fantasy --- it would allow us to be aware of them.  The unhappiness caused by some gift we make we could see and understand, and, if we wished, we could avoid making it worse.

And you?

Comments

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

I am not entirely confident that knowledge of the surrounding emotions will be sufficient.

Indeed, I have a sneaking suspicion that any action taken as a result is likely to cause further problems. After all, if the problem arose because of spoken desires, why should action taken on unspoken ones be any different?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

The bad idea it may be, for all my ideas are bad ideas.

[rowyn]

I'm pretty sure that any implemented version of it on World Tree would be not only Mentador-based but also resistable, making it quite hated by Prime cultures. Alas!