Tor wrote:Wrong, a lot of demons just like to mess around with you, maybe corrupt your morals, take you on as a servant, make you offer it a finger or two to eat.
Note that 'take you as a servant' often means 'slave' and slaves often die under them.
Sure, a number start out with more subtle ways, but their ways, given a choice on their part, usually are very negative for the humans. Heck, the 'corrupt your morals' often involves them manipulating you into attacking someone for their amusement.
But we are discussing the pre-emptive killing of monsters because they 'almost certainly' will try to kill you (you know, the way the CS thinks of mages/d-bees) not actually waiting until they try.
If a being is 'almost certainly' going to, then it's not completely out of the question, especially if there is a very large body of evidence backing that almost-certainty.
And the CS is not doing any due diligence in actually confirming whether their way is true, and even has mages right on their doorstep who don't try and kill them.
I will note if circumstances change and it becomes possible to negotiate with the Gargoyles- as the Minion war may lead to- then that'd of course call for a re-evaluation of tactics.
The victims of the NGR were not explicitly described as doing this.
Right, when they pushed out the D-bees was definitely an immoral act.
So the Succubi aren't master manipulators, they just go around killing people?
They're master manipulates, but the goals of their manipulation sometimes get you killed, sometimes gets you to kill others, and if they get caught out, they'll kill for convenience.
The least-fighty demons still leave body counts in their wake, and, importantly, aren't going to be convinced not to do so.
Though I will note this isn't exactly true of *all* demons- Chinese demons can learn to become not-demons.