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Originally Posted by Slayerx
Though i do agree that it's a flawed concept... i mean, the part about the hollows eating humans could be salvaged with an explaination that redeeming the hollows causes all their spirit energy to return to SS, and that spirit energy includes the human souls that they've eaten... However, what's still problematic is the fact that the swords are the only way to redeem a Hollow, and yet we have seen several other methods to killing hollows that are not shunned...
Orihime, Chad, Ururu, Tessai, Jinta, Yourichi along with Ishida and anyone who might kill using Kido spells, are all guitly of killing hollows in a fashion that would be damaging... So far there has been shown no reason for Yourichi NOT to use her sword... and Urahara is responsible for Ururu, Tessai and Jinta and has not payed attention to how they kill... and when it comes to the humans, SS has no problem with what they do despite the fact that they killed off nearly all the quincy's for doing the same damn thing. SS should indeed have a problem with them.
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What SS was most concerned about wasn't fact the Quincy were destroying hollow but the scale on which they were doing it. They were a clan who actively hunted and destroyed hollows . We don't know numbers at their peak but the clan could've reached the hundreds or the even the thousands. With these numbers, they could easily kill more hollows in a few months than Chad, Orihime and Ishida could in a lifetime. And with their powers and techniques being passed down each generation, if the clan continued to grow, the balance of souls would begin to be affected. That is the reason Souls Society was forced to intervene with them.
A shinigami destroying a hollow once in a while with kidou in the event that the zanpakuto can't be used (like Renji attempted with Syzael) isn't a huge problem, provided the shinigami normally kills with his sword. Shinigami have ways to destroy hollow without their zanpakuto, but they mainly rely on their swords, so the majority of the fights result with the hollow being cleansed unlike the Quincy who have no other way to fight.
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To make things more complicated, one of the earliest conflicts that Ichigo had to deal with was the idea that hollows were once human and he could not kill them because of that... the fact that he was redeeming the hollows he killed was the one thing that provided him the comfort he needed to fight on... he should have a SERIOUS problem with Chad, Ishida and Orihime killing hollows the way they, and would explained to them the whole thing...
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Ishida already understands what his techniques do. Both Ichigo and Rukia have known that. If he wants, he can use his powers in a way that doesn't destroy hollows (he spared both Iceringer and Chirucci in HM). Chad, like Ishida can use his powers in a non-lethal way. Also Chad and Orihime don't hunt hollows only defend against them. Between the two of them, they have only killed a total of two hollow in the entire story (that I can remember).