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Law Talk
Crazy Wilhelm:
You shouldn't let hate cloud your judgment, though. Incapacitate and Apprehend are the watchwords of the day. I mean, I guess your character could be some "morally grey" feller that flippantly executes folks, but then we would have reached one of those there Ethical empasse-thing-a-ma-jigs.
blackstaff67:
Fair enough ;D
Crazy Wilhelm:
It is a good point though, considering the case where some characters just can't really ask anybody for help with things like this. What do you do with the baddies if and when you can defeat them? Do you just trust that some day they'll stop trying to get back at you if you don't kill them? I mean, you could just kill them, and keep killing them, but is that the road you want to go down? It can be tough to be a pariah-creature.
Tedronai:
Incapacitate them with magic, then stomp their faces in with your boot in a purely mundane, if quite messy, fashion. Remove your boot. Burn or otherwise render it useless as evidence in the mundane justice system (magic helps here, too).
Wardens use swords instead of boots, but swords draw attention, and are cliche.
vultur:
--- Quote from: Mrmdubois on May 09, 2013, 05:50:25 PM ---Keep in mind that narratively that means you believed with our entire being that the person you killed needed to die. You're pretty likely to have been doing that to the bogeymen that have been coming after you too though and for some reason they don't stain your soul.
--- End quote ---
I think this is because, in the Dresdenverse, there's a very real metaphysical difference between mortals and full-on supernaturals. Supernaturals aren't really people in the fullest sense (I think there's a WoJ saying that with reference to Bob). A mortal has all this potential/conflict/free will, etc bound up with its life and existence that a random faerie or spirit or Blampire doesn't.
There are certainly edge cases -- generally arising when you've got a mortal and a monster sharing space in one mind (White Court vampire, hexenwolf, Denarian), or a mortal and a proto-monster/influence like a Red Court infection or (maybe) a Knight's Mantle -- but the extreme cases (normal mortals/minor talents and practitioners/people of faith on one hand, and pure supernaturals like Rampires, Blampires, spirits and demons, etc on the other hand) are quite clear.
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