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Answer by Pica for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

In such a world, there would be creatures that eat carrion- without spilling blood. Either by sealing the entrance hole while they feed- or by injecting the young into the dead or dying carcass.They...

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Answer by Anonagon for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

Check out the premise of Brandon Sanderson's novella Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell. The Simple Rules of this world areDo not kindle a flame.Do not shed the blood of another.Do not run...

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Answer by BlockStop for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

Frame challengeCompletely bloodless warfare, or even life, is impossible. Just falling down can summon the beasts if you break your nose or scrape your knee. Others have pointed out that humans are...

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Answer by The Square-Cube Law for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

If the problem here is that causing someone or something to bleed invites further conflict, then we deal with these beasts the same way we deal with bees.Bees also get triggered when they smell death....

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Answer by Gray Sheep for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

I believe these apex predators had no chance against us. We work organizedly, we can build traps, we can trick them. We would learn their behavior, their real skills and we would live on ways where...

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Answer by Mindwin Remember Monica for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

how can war and weaponry develop in a world where spilling blood means calling death incarnate in a matter of minutes?By spilling metric tons of blood.The problem is not "not spilling blood". It's not...

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Answer by Judith Jones for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

Humans would need to either wipe out these creature, live in a place the creatures cannot reach ( underground caverns with entrances too small for the predator?).Or learn to cover the smell of...

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Answer by Fallenspacerock for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

Lower Technology LevelBludgeoning Weapons:The most straight forward ones.1. If you want to avoid opening wounds you just have to break someones bones to kill them.2. These weapons would come various...

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Answer by Mon for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

It depends on the setting but! The solution is to kill off 'death incarnate'The key issue: A lot depends on the technological level of the human societies in your world and how they got there. If we're...

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Answer by Escaped dental patient. for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

The invention of water-pistols saves the day.You should should draw blood and place it in the pistol (with a basic anti-clotting agent eg. a ferment of sweet clover, or mosquito extract if you have the...

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Answer by TheDemonLord for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

The winning army is the one that would be able to leverage this apex predator the most effectivelyBiological WeaponsIn our world we have the likes of anthrax, plague, etc. that have been weaponized. In...

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Answer by JBH for Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

This is a Frame ChallengeHumans are the apex predator. Our problem-solving abilities ensure that. And I'm not a fan of apparently godlike creatures/characters, which means "unkillable" really suggests...

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Minimizing bleeding, maximizing killing

In this world there is a species of Apex predators that roams every corner of the planet, creatures basically unkillable... Oh, and it flies, very fast. But they have only one weakness, they are blind...

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