User blog comment:IzumiP/A few words on weapons in Subnautica./@comment-26794840-20151008200433/@comment-67.172.141.230-20151020235256

It raises an interesting prospect about the society that the colonists come from. After a certain point in the development of a civilization, maybe people just simply forget how to defend themselves. The Aurora dates to two centuries from now, in a time where anything and everything can be manufactured from raw elemental materials. I would bet that humanity's history of hunting and killing for their food is a distant memory in that kind of world. To these people, food comes from a food synthesizer. Water comes from a water synthesizer. Even for meat, there is no stabbing, shooting, slaughtering, or hunting involved. Is it really so weird to imagine that humans might just forget how to survive without technology, and then make a game where the main character re-discovers this?