It's a poor explanation for someone from the Gems' isolated little culture, where materials and supplies and the things people make are limited and precious. Even with things that aren't strictly necessary and might get damaged anyway, like their uniforms, Phos couldn't imagine just tearing them up needlessly. That's too cruel to the people who put time and effort into making them and those who gathered the raw materials in the first place and those who could have used it for something else.]
Even if they were just...fake people or whatever, why do you have to break things for no reason? It's mean, and wasteful.
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Even if they were just...fake people or whatever, why do you have to break things for no reason? It's mean, and wasteful.