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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1598577" data-attributes="member: 13654">Hmn.  I still don't quite get why the other PC's suddenly decided that the thing has a right to live.  I can see a few potential arguments but not in the circumstances that have been described.  I'm actually assuming that there was more said/done than has been related.  Some background events that would lead to this rift or something.  It really does sound at this point like A) metagame thinking from the other PC's who seem to be applying rules of morality that are not, in fact, actually applicable and B) a petulant response to your disagreement with their statements and assessments.The one point they might have in their favor is that its alignment is neutral, not evil.  It doesn't do what it does out of spite, it's just its nature.  It's an eating and destruction machine in the same way that a Great White shark is an eating machine with the same thought and morality.  The T. is only slightly more intelligent and thus only by a razor thin margin is less than purely animalistic.  Anyone who knows what it is and thus what it WILL do would not just be morally free to kill it but morally obligated to kill it - or at the VERY least assure utterly its captivity or inability to cause further harm.  You don't have to kill it - but only if you entomb it forever or lock it up in the worlds first and largest nature preserve where it won't be a problem anymore.Failure to do so is to say that the creature SHOULD be free to kill and destroy at will, or that you don't CARE if it does.  Refusal to assist in dealing with it demonstrates quite starkly either a lack or moral conviction or moral depradation.</blockquote>

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