Seriously, their society sounds so overtly positive in the face of a preposterously hopeless and uncaring universe, there’s no way even the codex is telling the truth.
It’s like being stuck in a malfunctioning elevator with the Adoring Fan from Oblivion, or trapped in a burning home with Ned Flanders; the overt positivity just seems like it’s projection and there is a hidden darkness element somewhere waiting to come out.
The “Greater Good” religion simply sounds too good to be true. So they should all be destroyed, and their societies wiped from existence.
Edit: it looks like many people here don’t understand the obvious hypocritical irony and sarcasm written here…
The “Greater Good” religion simply sounds too good to be true.
It is too good to be true. If the Imperium is a parody of fascism, the Tau are the same for utopian socialism. On Earth in the 20th century, the sublimation of the individual to the greater good led inexorably to Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. That aspect of the Tau seems like an interesting thing to explore.
