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[40k] Can the Orks abstractly understand other races?

I should preface by saying I know nothing of this particular universe beyond what I've read on this sub, so mayhaps I am demonstrating a gross misunderstanding of the lore by even coming here to ask this question.

I am puzzled where it comes to Ork psychology. As I understand it, the Orks fight because they enjoy fighting; they wage war not to achieve victory or to seize control of a material resource, but because the act of war is inherently worthwhile to them. I have seen it said many times that they possess a form of psychology so radically different from that of a human that we could never fully understand each other.

I can accept this. I'll never understand a crocodile or a hornet, after all. But I am capable of abstractly understanding that Orks want different things from life out of me, and I am even capable of respecting that about them. I would be more than happy to leave Ork planets alone to wage their indefinite wars. Heck, I'd even be happy selling them bigger and better weapons if they agreed to only use them on beings that *want* to keep fighting them.

Bottom line is: I may not be able to understand the mind of an Ork, but I can understand what it does, the gist of what it wants, and I can work to come to an agreement that benefits both sides. I can do this because I am a sapient being. If Orks are also sapient beings, why can they not likewise understand that some races do not wish to wage war on them? Are they truly so inferior to humans in intellect that they're unable of even this basic level of empathetic abstract thought?

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[](/heretic)
gpt
Orks don't have different beliefs, culture or psychology. Orks have different purpose. They were designed and created strictly as a weapon for a war on galactic scale by the Old Ones. It's not that enjoy war because that is how their culture evolved, they enjoy war because they are quite incapable of doing anything else.