Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4623180-20121103100513/@comment-5102537-20130726112353

Imagine, your loved one - husband, wife, child, sister, brother, parents, partner, whoever - entered the property of someone who has the right to shoot the "invader" immediately without asking (which is indeed the case in some parts of the USA and most certainl in some other countries too).

Your murdered loved one is being sent home to you, beheaded or without arms and legs or whatever. You watch the body and know that the one who shot your loved one wouldn't have had to do it.

You're not only outraged but also in grief and you prepare to attack the killer of your loved one. He or she comes to you and apologises. Then you agree that he and one of your best fighters in your group go to battle. The killer wins but refrains from killing your fighter too.

Would you forgive the killer and would you even praise him only because he or she apologised and refused to kill another one? Would your grief be unimportant all of a sudden and would you forget about it all and even become friends with the killer of your loved one?

If so, why is it such a big crime to kill a human being when actually it's all so easy to make it all fine again? Just a little talking, avoiding a big fight (a war in this case) and everything is alright again?

I truly doubt that. It would have been totally okay if Annis agreed to not go to war in order to save countless lifes. A truce would have been okay too, in regard to the political and strategical situation. But forgiveness so quickly, even praising Arthur anda following friendship - sorry, that was quite ridiculous.