Punting Tarutaru is a Crime!
     Imagine if you will, you are walking along, minding your own business, and enjoying the world in your own special, non-offensive way. Then out of nowhere, someone comes along and punts you. You have just sampled the plight of the tarutaru.

     Every day, thousands upon thousands of tarutaru are senselessly punted. Why? Nobody can really answer that question to any degree of satisfaction. Punting tarutaru is a hate crime no matter how you look at it. It is an act of violence based on little else but personal vendetta.

     Let's take a moment to examine the background of the victim. The tarutaru are a peaceful, playful race. In their homeland of Windhurst they often spend hours working on their healing crafts, and making their many visitors feel welcome in their peaceful city.

     Like any race, the tarutaru have their differences and may appear strange to outsiders, but their habits and methods of expressing themselves are no more strange to them as yours are to you. The tarutaru have often expressed joy by repeatedly running around in tight, sometimes wide circles. This joy can also be expressed toward people by running around them in a similar way. Tarutaru also express affection and camaraderie by an action that is often mistaken for humping. In reality it is more of a gentle rubbing action. All of these friendly, innocent, and often misunderstood actions often make the tarutaru race a frequent victim of random acts of violence.

     When random people across Asura were stopped and asked about this matter, they had this to say:

Random Mithra-
     Yeah, I punt the little bastards! They annoy the hell out of me. They smell, their short, and more importantly, when I kick them really hard, they go really far away! DEATH TO ALL TARUTARU!

Random Elvaan-
     They touch me, and every time they do so, I feel dirty. By punting the wrenched runts, I am doing the people of  these lands a public service.

Random Galka-
     I think punting tarutaru is wrong. It is an injustice, and a waste of a perfectly good species. Sneaking up and sitting on tarutaru is the only real use they serve in this world. Sometimes, they even deserve a fart in the process. Kicking them is silly. How are they supposed to make me laugh if they aren't around for me to sit on them?

Random Hume-
     What the hell is a tarutaru? Oh, you mean those short things I see running around everywhere? I try not to have any contact with them, they are a little weird for my tastes. I'd rather converse with intelligent species only.

     When I attempted to get some tarutaru to comment, all they wanted to do was run around in circles, or make babies with my leg. I fear one of them may succeeded. I kicked that horny little runt into next Tuesday. But that still doesn't change the fact that punting tarutaru is a crime. No matter how much they deserve it!

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