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Originally Posted by Endscape
I've already responded to this above.
If Ainz actually had any moral hangups about killing people when he was human, these would not have completely disappeared along with his ability to value life. He himself realizes that he has changed, and his response is to simply go along with it. No self-reflection, no attempt to control himself at all.
That tells me that he never felt anything about killing to begin with, he simply had neither the opportunity or guts to do it when he was Suzuki Satoru.
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Completely wrong. In S1 EP3, when he did his first "kill", it was against mass murdering (fake) knights in armor, who were in the middle of obliterating a village and were just about to murder a young woman and a little girl in cold blood. When Ainz killed them he used slightly modified version of actions he took back when the only things he was "killing" were 0s and 1s on the YGGDRASSIL servers.
After the deed was done, he reflected on what just happened and concluded that he didn't have any emotional reaction toward the death of human beings and that he truly stopped being human.
To interpret "stopped being human" as "he did so even before the world transfer" is not really backed by any facts we know of.
There are two much simpler explanations:
1. Something happened to Ainz's mind when he tranfered to the other world and that made him unable to feel any empathy or sympathy towards enemies. It might be a side effect of mental status resistances/immunities he posseses. This is backed by the scene where he said that he doesn't feel affected by gore anymore, although as a human he was so sensitive to gore that he would have even thrown up.
2. Ainz subconsciously views any kills he does as PvE or PvP. So those he doesn't have much of a relation with are, to him, just any plain old NPCs, while he views those he has extensively communicated with as Player Characters, which would, by the way, also solve the mystery of why he can be so cold and business-like to some but becomes farily warm towards those who he took a liking to. They change from being considered NPCs to being considered PCs. The other two explanations (both yours and my first one) don't quite address this issue or handwave it away, so this explanation seems the most likely, but who knows.
There's also one more strong piece of evidence in the season finale which will also support this interpretation.
Compared to these two interpretations yours seems rather forced.