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Old 2012-04-25, 08:32   Link #895
bludvein
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Originally Posted by kuroishinigami View Post
Even if it's just something trivial for us, remember that the spirits might have different set of law and moral value than human like I said. Just like how death penalty is a common law back in the day, maybe for the spirits freezing someone is an appropriate punishment for breaking a relic. You can't say that an executioner is evil back when death penalty is still practiced can't you?

As long as the novel hasn't explicitly or implicitly tells us that the spirit king act for the sake of making people suffer, I want to give them the benefit of doubt that the cruel and excessive action they do is just an appropriate punishment for their law and moral value
Which is pretty much exactly what I said earlier. They may not have been shown to be explicitly evil yet, but they definitely aren't good guys by the standards of humans. Judging by Est and Restia(before she got mind-screwed), spirits aren't that different from humans morally.

They sound like tyrants.
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