Re: (TFT) Fatigue Damage?

[Thorn <edt@dopey.ne.mediaone.net>]

Pasha and Rick Smith wrote:
> 
> > >       These rules are WAY to complicated
> > for general distribution but I like them.<
> >
> > Acutally they sound pretty sensible to me! How do you handle animal damage?
> > Is that all real?
>
>         Animals do real damage except when doing
> ritual combat within their species.

Rick and the list... a question that verges on the philosophical:

Would a human, fighting (presumably for its life) do 'real' damage to an
animal?  Is it the human lack of bloodletting weaponry(fangs, claws,
etc) that causes us to class human unarmed damage as subdual, or is it
the socialized (perhaps instinctive) tendency away from strikes which
would be killing?

Surely a great ape's bludgeoning fists are a similar degree of deadly to
a human's bludgeoning fists, apart from the strength of the blow?  Or
from another tack, surely a throat- or temple-strike is a higher degree
of deadly than the traditional, theatrical, socially-taught 'punch in
the mouth'.

Can a human _choose_ to strike (a human, for arguements sake, though the
animal question follows closely thereafter) with deadly intent?  If not,
why not?  And I'm not asking for a ruling, exactly; I would probably
_rule_ 'No', for simplicity, but I _reason_ 'Yes'.
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