For some reason I'm picturing seven dwarfers with various skillsets wheeling a cart laden with supplies out to a place in the middle of nowhere they were told has clay, shallow and deep metals and an underground river and starting to dig...
Soon after:
'The Mechanized titan Delta Force has arrived! An armored vehicle, filled with heavily armed soldiers! It has a heavy machine gun and advances quickly. Beware it's 20 mm cannon!'
I'll top that!
The Atomic Bomb Fat Man has arrived! A great round metal ball. It is filled with atomic energy and a device that can split the atoms. Beware its deadly radiation!
But seriously, can we go until New Year's Day 2013 without posting about butchering puppies, killing nobles, and drowning migrants??
And especially, STOP POSTING ABOUT HEARTLESSLY MURDERING AND BUTCHERING BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Babies, both in DF and in the real world, are as equal as an adult. Take this: Would you like it if you had a kid and some stranger murdered and butchered him/her? And it's just because he said he/she "was a useless part of life and deserved to die". Would you like that?
I SWEAR TO ARMOK that I'm going to ask Toady to make babies/children impervious to ANYTHING POSSIBLE IN THE GAME until they reach adulthood.
OR, to ban you monsters from posting EVER AGAIN.
Does any of the above sound reasonable?
Chill, you take this too seriously..
Are you by any chance related to this guy?
Nope. But nice try, though.
You know what, fine. You do your own little baby-killing and macabre ways of using their bones as raw materials. You go and frolick off in your murderous ways of killing off the local (dwarven) population, and I'll sit here, watching you, no longer caring about what you do. Go ahead. And SEE IF YOUR DWARFS CARE. Your seemingly useless King can befriend the whole fort, and when you kill him, the whole fort will erupt in a tantrum spiral.
ABOUT EQUALITY: Take in effect the part of the Constitution Of The United States. It states that "We hold these Yruths to be self-evident, that all Men are created Equal..." "...born with certain inalienable Rights..." "... and that among these Rights are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". Think. Men not only means in real life, but should mean in games like this, too. Just, think about it.
Side-note: Your dwarves have thoughts, you know. Killing their children or their noble spouses can lead to a VERY BAD THOUGHT in the mother/father/wife/husband. But you won't care, and then they'll start a fortress-killing tantrum spiral which you also won't care about.