Wow. Good men do die in ZnT.
Though I can't exactly agree with burning a whole village just because it has the plague. Setting up quarantine procedures? Sure. Burning the corpses and houses? Right on.
But burning people alive on some vague suspicion there's a plague around? Madness. And not the "this is Sparta" kind.
I also wonder about Colbert's pacifism. Just because
he, in the name of military discipline, committed a monstrous act, doesn't mean every soldier is a monster. I prefer a phrase from Bujold's
Winterfair Gift:
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"A higher honor must underlie ours, the count says. We can’t ever obey unthinkingly."
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