It always pisses me off when someone defending their life, or the lives of others, in a show is somehow a monster for stopping the threat. (Or it is somehow ‘honorable’ to not kill someone actively murdering others.)
Fuck no. Stop the murderer, rapist, or terrorist using as much force as is necessary. Little Timmy will be so much better off with parents who are still alive, Susan will be happy her husband wasn’t murdered, etc etc.
In Dishonored people like to spare the Assassin that kicked off the events of the game. Why? Cause he is remorseful. “I killed thousands, but this one lady was different. I will never kill again. I am so sad now.” Fun game, but that writing is atrocious, yet the players eat it up. Oh, that poor Assassin killing for money!
It always pisses me off when someone defending their life, or the lives of others, in a show is somehow a monster for stopping the threat. (Or it is somehow ‘honorable’ to not kill someone actively murdering others.)
Fuck no. Stop the murderer, rapist, or terrorist using as much force as is necessary. Little Timmy will be so much better off with parents who are still alive, Susan will be happy her husband wasn’t murdered, etc etc.
In Dishonored people like to spare the Assassin that kicked off the events of the game. Why? Cause he is remorseful. “I killed thousands, but this one lady was different. I will never kill again. I am so sad now.” Fun game, but that writing is atrocious, yet the players eat it up. Oh, that poor Assassin killing for money!
But with the state monopoly on violence this becomes anti social thinking.
Only the state can do violence, and it must not be seen to be accountable to the people, so it cannot echo our aggregate morality.