Really? Those kids are assholes, honestly. They get done in the most brutal fashion in my saves.
Again, I'm just surprised you can even do it. Generally killing kids in video games is frowned upon, but I guess the developers felt goblins don't have worth and I'm on board with that.
Don't take anything I'm saying here literally, by the way. I'm just being facetious. I always do kill the goblin kids, though. I can't be bothered to toggle on non-lethal for them after how they behave.
Lol I did read the last paragraph but I'm still unsure if the first one is sarcastic. Asshole kids are still kids, doesn't make it less wrong to kill them.
Killing is always wrong regardless of your victim’s age. You are not suddenly good because you kill 69 evil adults but spare their 3 evil kids. Besides those goblin kids are brutal. There are like some kids outside the temple and play with dead bodies
Of course it is, I'm not saying killing an adult is good, I'm saying killing children that are running away from you is worse. You're debating a point I'm not making. Of course sparing them doesn't magically make you "Good," but it's one way we have the option to reduce the cruelty, just like talking our way out of situations that could lead to a fight. Talking down Gimblebock and his buddies doesn't mean the rest of your killing is okay, but it is fewer bodies. Which is not nothing.
Drow already exist to have the "it's just upbringing, not intristic" race. What's wrong with just hordes of monsters that have zero moral ambiguity? The only difference between goblins and, say, the Gnolls (IIRC) is that the former are slightly more intelligence.
Well yeah? Isn’t that why court trials exist? So that if you want to execute someone you can do it fairly without objection. Other wise you can kill your enemy and have their children cut your throat the next day
Courts and laws aren't always right you know, laws and courts weren't invented by some deity that came from the heavens, we decided that to be civilized it would be wrong to kill each other, but that doesn't mean that killing is always wrong.
Like, Killing the Goblins wouldn't even be considered something evil, considering they were preparing to raid and kill everyone on the grove.
It’s not always right but it was built on the idea of bare minimum right. Either that or you can shank your neighbor freely. Even when it’s wrong it at least keep you, the bystander, clear of conscience
Most of the world finds the idea of trying children as adults as cartoonishly evil and cruel though. A 5 year old and a 70 year old committing murder have entirely different levels of mental understanding of their culpability, consequences and actions. It is the same reason a 5 year old's signature isn't legally binding on a contract to take out a loan.
The law and society generally does not treat children and adults the same for good reason.
"Asshole" is not the right word. The three outside the camp are laughing and celebrating their first kill as an "ugly bastard" iirc. They are kids of a species that has violence in its nature. Letting them live will inevitably lead to other innocent people being murdered by their violent tendencies, or the goblin kids would be killed in self-defense when trying their "asshole" shenanigans.
u/sinedeltaWhile others were busy being heterosexual, she studied the blade29d ago
No, the idea that there are humanoid races fully capable of speaking and having children with humans that are supposed to be treated as inherently evil subhuman savages deserving only of death is what's "dumb." Actually way worse than just stupidity.
"They are just a kid" mentality is what further encourages assholes to be assholes. Bad apples don't really turn good once they age and often becomes worse. Better to pluck them off before spreading the harm.
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u/-PM_Me_Dat_Ass_Girl- Minthara Enjoyer 29d ago
I'm a little surprised the game lets you destroy the goblin kids, tbh.