We, (most of us at any rate), live in highly individualistic societies where individual choice is paramount. Feudal societies are very different. Your family defines you. Your brothers and sisters don't live half a world away (well maybe your sisters do if they've been married off to cement alliances), but you grow up surrounded by a large extended family where your 5th cousin twice removed lives down the street from you. And even those sisters who do get married off to someone half a world away have a safety net to return to should their husband die or become abusive. In a society like that, if your cousin down the street is killed by someone from another family then that is also an attack on your family, and thus on you as well.
That's how blood feuds start. If you kill someone's father, regardless of the heinous crimes he may have committed, then it is extremely likely that his sons will declare that they will avenge themselves by seeking not only your death, but quite possibly the deaths of anyone in your family they can catch too. So it was pretty common back in the day for entire families (or at least their male members) to be put to the sword as a precautionary measure to prevent a pay back.
That said, I'm not going to feel the least bit bad about putting him through the joining. Neither would I be in the least bit bothered if he died. On the other hand I wouldn't kill him myself unless he really pushed it.
Modifié par Vim, 14 mars 2010 - 10:59 .