Certainly there can (and have) been tribes/nations that did bad things because of false beliefs (and sometimes true beliefs!).
The point here is more about various relationships between stories and freedom, than it is about tribes. It’s not meant to dictate a concrete moral, so much as to illustrate a few different things that can happen, that are worth being cognizant of.
In the Seder context, this is the first of many stories, some true, some fictional, that illustrate different concepts, some with clearcut morals and some deliberately openended, but A Story of War is there to set the general metaframe of “we’re here to talk about stories and freedom and how they relate”.
Certainly there can (and have) been tribes/nations that did bad things because of false beliefs (and sometimes true beliefs!).
The point here is more about various relationships between stories and freedom, than it is about tribes. It’s not meant to dictate a concrete moral, so much as to illustrate a few different things that can happen, that are worth being cognizant of.
In the Seder context, this is the first of many stories, some true, some fictional, that illustrate different concepts, some with clearcut morals and some deliberately openended, but A Story of War is there to set the general metaframe of “we’re here to talk about stories and freedom and how they relate”.