Here's the thing. You said a "hal is a dirk."
Are they in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies hals, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls hals dirks.
If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "strider family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Strilondes, which includes things from roxys to roses to daves.
So your reasoning for calling hal a dirk is because random people "call the bastard ones dirks?" Let's get jades and johns in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a kid or an guardian? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both.
A hal is a hal and a member of the strider family. But that's not what you said. You said a hal is a dirk, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the strider family dirks, which means you'd call roxys, roses, and other humans 'dirks', too.
Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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