SandTrout wrote...
D.Kain, a point you seem to miss is that simply because something is understandable, doesn't make it right.
I can understand why authoritarian governments slaughter millions of their own people. I can understand why a burglar breaks into a house. I can understand why Morinth did what she did (which aren't the same reasons as you seem to think).
This does not prevent these things from being evil and destructive, or that I sympathize with them. Actions can be 100% understandable and still morally reprehensible to the point that no sane person would consider them justified.
The people that commit these acts usually simply don't care if it is justified or not. This not caring is what makes them, and Morinth, monsters. Normal, decent people, care weather or not something they do harms another person. They may still take the action if they consider it justified or necessary, but they still care.
Morinth doesn't care (any more) about the slaughter she has caused as long as she is able to maintain feeding her condition. She makes the choice, repeatedly, that her own high is of greater importance than another person's life, and doesn't care that she kills her partners.
She probably cares, I mean as much as a farmer would care to kill a cow that he likes to eat. I mean it is sad, but nescecery. She was put into a position in which her melding and manipulating people is nescecery to survive and to fight back, or even to hipnotize people to move around freely, which all again comes down to her power which she get's by melding.