bobobo878 wrote...
Morinth and Samara are bother murderers, but at least Morinth is honest with herself about what she does. Morinth may not have a religious code to justify killing Nef, but that does not make this act any more monsterous than the murders Samara commits. If Shepard hadn't come to her rescue, Samara would have murdered that cop on Illium just for doing her job.
Justicars represent an Asari Legal Code. There are differences from our code, but there are similarities as well. Justicars are given absolute authority, and the Asari know that. Despite this, the cop on Illium was ordered by her Asari bosses to interfere, knowing full well the dangers. Samara could ahve killed the Cop right away, but decided to be flexible due to Shepards help. Basically, you are decideing that because it doesn't conform to your standards that Asari justice is amoral.
Samara said she saw him kill an unarmed civilian, but she didn't bother to stop and ask him why she killed that person. Being a Spectre, Nihilus could have had a very good reason for killing that person. The person Nihlus killed could have been a spy, who would have put people in danger with the information he would have sent if Nihlus had killed him later. Or, he could have been a terrorist, bearing a concealed weapon of mass destruction that Samara did not see. But Samara herself said that she did not know why Nihlus killed him.
Murder is murder, Specters are outside of the Asari Justicar system, remember, Justicars almost never leave Asari space, most likely to avoid these strange legal overlaps.
When Samara said that she didn't need to know why she was helping you eradicate the collectors, saying "If I have to kill a man, do I need to know he's a loving father?" it revealed a deeply disturbing facet of her character. Samara simply does not care to know if what she does is wrong. After she discovered that her daughters were ardat-yakshi she ceased to trust in her own judgement, and being too afraid to make her own choices anymore, she lets her code think for her. For all she knew, Nihlus could have just saved more lives than she ever will, but that doesn't matter to her because allowing her code to think for her saves her from having to make hard choices.
Blind Justice is a basic premise of the American legal system, yet you seem to think when its a one woman show that is all of a sudden deeply disturbing. Who cares if a serial killer is nice to his kids, that doesn't make serial killing ok. Samara is correct, in a blind justice system it doesn't matter if someone who's crimes require the death penalty is a loving father, its immeterial.
I'm not saying it's okay for Morinth to commit serial murder against hipsters on Omega, but Samara is a trigger happy zealot meddling in galactic security affairs that she simply does not care to understand. At least when Morinth murders in cold blood, she put galactic security at risk.
Samara is actually a lot like Judge Dread, a legal system rolled into one person. While it might not appeal to modern western sensibilties, that hardly makes her a trigger happy zealot. She only acts when a crime has occured, outside political motivations don't mean much to her, but then again, how much do they mean to western legal systems?
Morinth on the other hand literally kills only for pleasure, and dosen't ever care.
Your basic argument is that laws don't apply if they are broken for the right reason, and since Samara adhears to blind justice, she's somehow a bad person. And who is arbitor of the "right reason"? You? I hope not, because you already have stated that being a loving father is a mitigiating circumstance for a crime serious enough to require a death penalty.
Shepard is a soilder, he gets to make moral decisions. Samara is a justice system, she can only make legal ones, and even at that she was willing to "ignore" that duty by being willing to kill herself to save her daughter.
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