"Even if I avoid it, people will inevitably get bitten by them anyway. I can use the venom to make medicine that will treat them when that happens. We have kids as young as fifteen here who've never spent a day in the woods in their life," he explains- he's assuming based on the man's seeming understanding of medicine and speech patterns, that he's human, and potentially from an earlier time period.
He doesn't talk down to him the way most scholars of his time would. Alex has been raised to consider the life experiences of others when talking to them, and not to judge them based on his own ideas of human morals- it doesn't take too far a leap of emotional logic to apply this to another human, within reason. So he speaks to him with the level of respect he would a member of crytpid society trying to understand humans.
Honestly, it makes interacting with this guy a touch easier than some modern humans. You don't become the God of Scales and Silences without going through several very awkward phases and making very few friends among your own peers.
"I'm not a doctor for people, but if I can use my skills with animals to help them, I will. This can help people, potentially children- I'm sure you've seen how much worse it is when a snake bites someone that much smaller." It's a deliberate deference of expertise. "Because of medicine like this, only about five people a year in the US die of snake bites despite several thousand of them getting themselves bitten."
Alex is leaving out the deaths by snakes not currently acknowledged as real by mainstream science, since the cryptid employees of the CDC make a habit of making sure those go unreported. The gorgons have a particularly vested interest in this.
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He doesn't talk down to him the way most scholars of his time would. Alex has been raised to consider the life experiences of others when talking to them, and not to judge them based on his own ideas of human morals- it doesn't take too far a leap of emotional logic to apply this to another human, within reason. So he speaks to him with the level of respect he would a member of crytpid society trying to understand humans.
Honestly, it makes interacting with this guy a touch easier than some modern humans. You don't become the God of Scales and Silences without going through several very awkward phases and making very few friends among your own peers.
"I'm not a doctor for people, but if I can use my skills with animals to help them, I will. This can help people, potentially children- I'm sure you've seen how much worse it is when a snake bites someone that much smaller." It's a deliberate deference of expertise. "Because of medicine like this, only about five people a year in the US die of snake bites despite several thousand of them getting themselves bitten."
Alex is leaving out the deaths by snakes not currently acknowledged as real by mainstream science, since the cryptid employees of the CDC make a habit of making sure those go unreported. The gorgons have a particularly vested interest in this.