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Whether this is because Gorean hunting tradition favors the weak, protecting him with the stronger spears, or tradition scorns the weak, regarding him as the most expendable member of the party, I do not know. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #104)

This may seem cruel but in the long run it tends to be conservative of human life; it is better, as the Goreans say, for one man to die than many. First Spear is normally the best of the spearmen because if the larl is not slain or seriously wounded with the first strike, the lives of all, and not simply that of Last Spear, stand in considerable jeopardy. Paradoxically perhaps, Last Spear is normally the weakest of the spearmen, the least skilled. Whether this is because Gorean hunting tradition favors the weak, protecting him with the stronger spears, or tradition scorns the weak, regarding him as the most expendable member of the party, I do not know. The origin of this hunting practice is lost in antiquity, being as old perhaps as men and weapons and larls. I once asked a Gorean hunter whom I met in Ar why the larl was hunted at all. I have never forgotten his reply. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)