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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5729256" data-attributes="member: 54707">Interesting thread.   As for me I have a simple rule about killing  anything or anyone under any circumstance, real or imagined.   If a creature, or a being, like a person, has  demonstrated that they are a lethal hazard to others, and that they enjoy  killing or harm, or that they definitely intend to harm or kill innocents, I'll  kill it.   If it is dangerous enough, and presents an  immediate lethal threat, I'll kill it. No matter what it is.   In this case I'd definitely kill all the kobolds  and possibly the monster, depending on what it actually did. (Sorry, didn't have  time to read the entire thread, just get the gist of it.)    As for the offspring, I wouldn't necessarily kill  them, but would try and raise or train them (depending on their level of  intelligence and how, or if they could be trained). If in the future they  presented a lethal threat to others, I'd kill them.   Not because I'd have anything against them. I  wouldn't. One way or another. But if they were a lethal threat to innocents, I'd  kill them before they could act, if possible, on their nature.   I don't hold anything against whatever I kill, and  I don't kill for sport. I'd prefer to see just about any living thing live and  thrive, if at all possible. And I don't like killing. But I ain't afraid of it  either. I'm methodical if necessary, and I'd try to kill as quickly,  effectively, and painlessly as possible in the given circumstance.   But I wouldn't let something or someone dangerous  kill or harm innocents if I could stop or kill the offender or "monster in this  case" first.   I don't think of that as slaughter, but as a  necessary function of saving innocent life. (And innocents deserve life more  than the vicious and the predatorily violent - I'm not speaking metaphysically  or spiritually, but morally and pragmatically.)   I think of slaughter as intentionally and  willfully seeking to harm and kill others for no reason other than pleasure (and  I've known those who have taken great pleasure in murdering or harming others),  psychopathy (they just don't care about anyone but themselves), or because they  are dangerous creatures who kill because they can.   Such as they I don't mind killing myself. I don't  like it, but better them than the innocents they will later  slaughter.   Otherwise if they will reform, or if they are  trainable (such as in the case of an intelligent animal) I'm willing to let them  live. Unless they prove themselves dangerous enough later on I have to kill  them.   My simple rule about killing is this: if you're  dangerous enough I'll watch you carefully. If you've proven yourself a lethal  threat to innocents for no good reason other than you can be, I'll kill you. As  quickly and efficiently and as covertly as necessary, or possible. Otherwise I'm  more than happy not to kill, if at all possible.   And based on what I've seen and know, it has been  my personal experience, there are some few people you can reform (out of those  who enjoy murder) and are willing to take up a different nature, and so are  worth reforming and retraining, and many others who have no intention or reform  and never intend to.   It's an extrapolated speculation of course, but I  would suspect the same would hold true of monsters, if they existed. Some would  be worth keeping under close scrutiny and retraining, many it would be better  for others, and for them, to kill them quickly and efficiently.</blockquote>

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