Anyone who doesn't want to read a rant, please ignore the following...
Basic fact of humanity:
We want to join groups and be a part of something, for losers this is a bit difficult so they solve this problem by joining things
In peace: join the sharing/scientology/Moonies/nazi party etc
In war: Join the Anti-Yeerk resistance/regular army/Irgun/Al-Qaeda etc. That is to say that the slow invasion method of Visser 1 turns humanity's social needs into a weakness for the yeerks, but in Visser3's all out war our sociability is a great strength.
I would start my own guerrilla army (originally consisting of friends later capturing hosts and starving the yeerk), place my family in safety and use standard terrorist tactics in order to kill as many yeerks civilian and military, if any freed host turned out to be voluntary i would either behead them, beat them to death, burn them alive eventually i would start hanging drawing and quartering them I would video tape this and then put on the yeerk version of youtube/the news as a warning to other voluntaries.
Becoming a voluntary controller is worse than Oswald Mosley and his friends who betrayed Britain to the Nazis.
To betray ones' country is bad, to betray your whole species is even worse.
Only if you are that species. You don't mind Aftran and the rest of the peace movement, no? Or even Aldrea, Elfangor or Ax?
Betraying your species is bad, but torturing to death another member of your own species is much, much worse.
What about people who have already been betrayed by their own species? People in fear of their lives from dictatorships, seeking asylum and being turned away? If I didn't have food or a roof over my head or a way to look after and educate my children, and the Yeerks offered me all those things, I'd happily become a voluntary controller.
In a less extreme scenario- I know what it's like to be bullied at school. (I am so glad I'm now at uni
) Luckily I had a loving family at the time and some great friends outside school, but if I hadn't had them (i.e. I'd been like Tobias) and people from the Sharing offered me the first hint of kindness I'd ever seen, I'd take them over my own species who'd shown me nothing but indifference or cruelty.
And if I saw videos circulating of voluntaries being burnt alive... okay it might scare me into fighting the Yeerks, but I'd secretly like the Yeerks much better than the human resistance.
Plus most voluntaries don't really know what they're getting into- when we see Tobias get infested in Megamorphs 4, it's not like they fully explain it to him. He doesn't understand that he's betraying his species, he just thinks its some weird initiation ritual. And even then he tries to back out at the last minute.
I have to condemn completely the idea of burning anyone alive, no matter what they've done. Thankfully, I don't think that's something you'd really do, voodooqueen, if it came down to it. Or at least not as easily as you say you would do it.
Sorry for the long and slightly angry post, guys.
I would buy earplugs.
LOL yeah! I already have earplugs, so I'm all set