She sure doesn't seem terribly shook up about it. You can't really use the "slave to my addiction" excuse when you fully enjoy every moment of it. She embraces her condition, and doesn't care who it kills.bobobo878 wrote...
You're wrong. Morinth does not simply kill for pleasure, she kills because she needs to. Samara said that Morinth's killing is narcotic, she is psychologically addicted to killing. She is a slave to her condition just as much as Samara is a slave to her code. The difference between them is that Morinth did not choose to be born an Ardat-Yakshi, while Samara chose to become a Justicar.
If we're going to use hypothetical scenarios, Morinth could Seduce Shepard, kill him, and doom the galaxy. Oh wait, that can actually happen. Not that it even matters, considering it's the motives that determine the mortality of an action, anyway. The Illusive Man must be responsible for the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands, and yet he his less evil than Elnora, who killed one Volus and took great sadistic joy from it.bobobo878 wrote...
Killing NIhlus would be worse than killing Nef, because he was most likely on an assignment for the council, and by stopping him from doing his job she could have been endangering anyone he was assigned to protect. If you kill an artist on Omega, you're just killing one person, but if you kill a spectre, you could be causing the death of far more. We really have no idea what NIhlus was doing on his mission, so I'll use one of Shepard's missions.
Let's say Samara met a particularly unlawful Krogan and followed him to Virmire. There, she witnessed Shepard gunning down Rana Thanopolis in cold blood. Shepard had reason to believe that Rana was indoctriated and could not allow her to escape and hurt more people, but Samara does not know this, all she knows it that Shepard shot and killed an unarmed civilian. If this were to happen, she would not bother trying to figure out why Shepard did what he did, and why would she. She did not bother trying to figure out why Nihlus killed his victim, in ME2 she cannot even be bothered to ask why she is going to help Shepard eradicate an entire species. She would simply try to kill him. And if she were to succeed and Shepard was unable to wipe out Saren's lab, the galaxy would have been doomed. That's a lot more hurt people than just one artist and her mother.
NIhlus's mission may or may not have been as important as Shepard's mission on Virmire, but we will never know simply because Samara did not car
Target isolated individuals? You know she once dominated a whole village, turned them into mind slaves, and had them bring her sacrifices to feed off of, right? And when Samara showed up to stop her, she used them as meat-shields to get away. Sometimes I wonder if the more evil a character is made out to be, the more challenged people are to redeem them. I bet she'd still have fans if she tore the heads off babies right in front of their mothers.bobobo878 wrote...
Perhaps Morinth deserves to die more than most people Shepard has killed. But do you know who does deserve to die more? Samara. It is likely that her actions have indirectly killed more people than Morinth ever will, simply because she isn't responsible enough figure out the context when she sees what she thinks is an injustice. She just shoots first, and asks questions never. Morinth makes a stroong effort to target isolated individuals in order to avoid making ripples. She may not do this for the best of reasons, but at least it limits the damage caused by her actions.
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