It occurs to me that if I'm going to use anti-meld prejudice as a plot point in my novel, I need to figure out a way to make it make some sort of sense. I'm thinking of reframing it as a sort of weird, extremist fad that got traction among certain parts of the population, but that the vast majority of the population just side-eyed and then totally ignored. That's sort of my go-to when a bit of canon worldbuilding doesn't make sense. Since I already figure there's a plethora of cultures and subcultures and religions and philosophies, it's easy to think that some people like to pronounce that "Vulcans do X" while most of them are going "uh, yeah, we need to all about the lack of qualifiers in that statement".
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It occurs to me that if I'm going to use anti-meld prejudice as a plot point in my novel, I need to figure out a way to make it make some sort of sense. I'm thinking of reframing it as a sort of weird, extremist fad that got traction among certain parts of the population, but that the vast majority of the population just side-eyed and then totally ignored. That's sort of my go-to when a bit of canon worldbuilding doesn't make sense. Since I already figure there's a plethora of cultures and subcultures and religions and philosophies, it's easy to think that some people like to pronounce that "Vulcans do X" while most of them are going "uh, yeah, we need to all about the lack of qualifiers in that statement".