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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 4482011" data-attributes="member: 307">No, it isn't.The only reason to take a criminal prisoner is to place them on trial. A trial exists so that one can determine the guilt of the accused and determine sentence. V determined, accurately (albeit via the unorthodox means of a metagame interpretation of Elan's action, which in the OotS millieu is a perfectly legitimate method of obtaining information), that Kubota was a criminal guilty of heinous crimes. The penalty for the type of heinous crimes Kubota was guilty of (murder, multiple counts of attempted murder, treason, kidnapping, consorting with devils, and so on) has been generally accepted in the OotS world to be execution. Knowing this (via the metagaming evaluation), V simply short-cut through the legal process to the result that justice would demand (note that a just result is not the same as a lawful one, that is why courts in the U.S. are courts of law and equity). The fact that the villain had a reasonable chance of beating the system and avoiding the sentence his crimes justly deserved just reinforces the validity of V's actions.Killing a villain under those circumstances is not evil, even if he is tied up at the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 4482011, member: 307"] No, it isn't. The only reason to take a criminal prisoner is to place them on trial. A trial exists so that one can determine the guilt of the accused and determine sentence. V determined, accurately (albeit via the unorthodox means of a metagame interpretation of Elan's action, which in the OotS millieu is a perfectly legitimate method of obtaining information), that Kubota was a criminal guilty of heinous crimes. The penalty for the type of heinous crimes Kubota was guilty of (murder, multiple counts of attempted murder, treason, kidnapping, consorting with devils, and so on) has been generally accepted in the OotS world to be execution. Knowing this (via the metagaming evaluation), V simply short-cut through the legal process to the result that justice would demand (note that a just result is not the same as a lawful one, that is why courts in the U.S. are courts of law [i]and[/i] equity). The fact that the villain had a reasonable chance of beating the system and avoiding the sentence his crimes justly deserved just reinforces the validity of V's actions. Killing a villain under those circumstances is not evil, even if he is tied up at the time. [/QUOTE]

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