Getting back on topic:
Seival wrote...
To be harvested by the Reapers is not to be killed.
The essence of Harvested people is still alive, preserved in the Reaper form.
Killing a Reaper is a crime. Crime equal to the genocide. And total disrespect of the ones who came before us.
Even if we were to agree with you, what about the billions who were killed without being harvested? Was their essense preserved? The little boy you met in the duct in Vancouver, who boarded a shuttle and died?
And what about the millions (billions?) of beings who were transformed into banshees/brutes/ravagers/husks/collectors/mauraders/cannibals. Is a banshee the same person she was before? If you became a husk, would you still be Seival?