BHRamsay wrote...
Dean_the_Young wrote...
And we know for a fact she's certainly tried to kill non-Asari before: Nihlus.
Any lack of history of killing non-Asari is because non-Asari are rare in Asari space or because she's failed, not for lack of trying or any prohibition by her code.
Frankly, I've always been dubious about how literally Samara's claim that the villagers were 'brainwashed' by Morinth. Dominate is a cool gameplay power, but it really doesn't have grounding in the lore that we know of: biotics certainly don't work like that. Morinth's powers of coercion are of force of persuasion and personality which can be refused by a strong enough will, and by what we know of her past history all her victims have more or less been willing to do anything for her, even die. She leads them there, and they happily follow by their own volition, but we've never seen her rape or force anyone. She doesn't have to, which is a large part of her danger.
What is to say the villagers were brainwashed, a condition that implies it was both unnatural and against their will? Why can't Morinth have just seduced them all, mind and soul to a point where they wanted to protect her? Plenty of people here will freely admit they'd fight to defend friends and family from an outside attacker, but that doesn't imply brainwashing.
wait...what?
So your OK with the fact Morinth was cherry picking the best and brightest of that villiage to FEED on?
Where did I ever say that?
I have this peculiar belief that people should be accused of what they actually do, not what their detractors would like to sling at them. Plenty about Morinth is condemnable without accusations of witchcraft, and if removing the made-up issues changes your stance, that's your weakness.
Morinth may be a serial sex killer, but she is not a rapist, nor does she take the unwilling. She isn't upfront and honest about the full consequences with her mates, but can you honestly tell me that Nel would have cared or refused at that point? Did your Shepard care, if you didn't make the Paragon/Renegade check?
The worst part about Morinth isn't that she kills. It's that she seduces people to the point that they don't care about themselves, only her. They're value of self-preservation is already gone by the time she strikes.
Your OK with her herding them to certain death when she was clearly capable of saving their lives either by facing her mother herself or by ordering them to stand down since she had enough infuence over them to induce them to fight on her behalf?
If the villagers wanted to defend her, how is that herding them? How did she force them to keep fighting as she fled? Or 'force' them to fight in the first place?
The simplest, most likely, more appropriate answer is that she didn't force them to fight for her. They wanted to, acting like most people do when the ones they love are in danger. Parents, children, siblings, lovers, anyone can willingly throw themselves into certain death to buy time for a cherished one to escape.
Now, of her? Morinth flees. She always flees her mother. I'm hardly going to require her to submit to a suicide-by-justicar attempt now when she's been fleeing for hundreds of years.
Can I assume you also subscribe to the idea that Samara, faced with a villiage of people who doubtlessly were willing to KILL her, should have used minimum force to defend her own life?
If she didn't need to kill them, yes. I do not subscribe to a view that vigilantes, even when hunting down legitimate targets, should kill any more than they have to. The same sort of standard I apply to actual policemen. Samara certainly has the power and ability: perhaps not the first many, when the fight was most dangerous, but as the last were falling, and no longer a serious threat?
It does, however, beg the question. Given that Morinth was already fleeing, why should Samara have stayed to fight at all, instead of withdrawing?
Besides, of course, appeals to her code.
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