Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20170602170443/@comment-32182236-20190319005113

BlackfootFerret wrote: The Barrier acting one-way would allow light into the Underground.. but not allow any of it out.

We can see the Barrier glowing when Asgore shows it to Frisk. And we can see skylights shining down on Asgore's garden from above. Light is definitely coming on.

Didn't the runes say that not a single soul was taken during the war? Why would the humans worry about counter-attacks?

If anyone lost the war, it was the monsters. The humans didn't counter-attack... they lauched the original attack.

Would the monsters be justified in putting the humans behind a Barrier? Sure, light is coming IN. The white light is actually light FAILING to come out. No light is coming OUT of the Barrier. Hence why we can't see the Underground from above, and why looking out, all we see is white light.

The only reason why we can't say this is the humans' line of thinking, and that they didn't just make the Barrier to not kill all the monsters down below, is that the Barrier predates optics.

Though with Gaster around, perhaps we CAN say this. He easily could have discovered it far before the humans would.

The monsters most definitely lost the war. That's why the monsters are underground in the first place. Not a single SOUL was taken, because if a SOUL was taken, it would give the monsters the edge they needed to win the war. Asriel alone could have wiped out the village, but he didn't, because he's kind enough not to. But if he did... He easily could have eventually wiped out all of mankind.

The humans weren't worried about counter-attacks. They were worried that the monsters might use this power against them, so they attacked first. Except, perhaps not as simple as you think.

The Iraq War didn't start on September 11th.. But the precursor to it DID. Looking just at the war though, it looks like we attacked first.. It began with US invading SYRIA. Look into the context beforehand though, and the war was justified.

What's to say the human-monster war wasn't a similar thing? Kanashi did their thing, and we declare war on the monsters because of that, marking the start of the conflict? We of course couldn't have started the war while Kanashi was alive.. Else they'd be able to win. (Unless they were somehow on the human side.. But they stole a human's SOUL!)