*shrugs* I don't love them though. I love the game. But they're just pixels on a screen. Heck, in waiting for VV2 I've "killed off" thousands of villagers in VV1, restarting the game so I could do the puzzles all over again. I did the same with VV2 - I tried easy, restarting it several times until I could get through it without people dying before 14. Then Normal. Finally Hard. Only reason I haven't restarted it is because I'm so close to completing certain collections.

Sorry, but I can't love my villagers. They're not real. I love my dog, I love my parents, I even love the plants in my garden. But not fake people.

I have done the oppoisite, I have killed off young lazy ones, not kids but young adults who I just have no more time for, I hate that I did that, but could not take it anymore, I figure if they cannot learn after putting them on the same thing a couple of times, they are not worth my time.

The older folks though, they have worked hard and deserve to relax if they want to relax.

Eh, see I keep the young women cause they can still breed. Older men because I like to make the elderly males the village studs. The young men tend to be willing to learn skills and so do most of the young women. It's the old women I have trouble with. Since they can't breed, they really can't contribute anything worthwhile. There's plenty of food and the puzzles are solved. So.... bye bye!