Are We Evil?

[Atrocities]

Ok so your the ruler of a vast stellor empire with enemies all around you. You have commanded your forces to obliterate an enemy planet. Your ships defeat the planets orbital defense and anihilate the planets Weapons Platforms. All you have to do now is drop troops but instead you glass the population from orbit killing 16 Billion people.

Does that make you Evil? Think about it, if that was a real planet, those were real beings, would not what you have just done be considered a crime against the galaxy? Whole sale extermination of the population of an entire planet?

I guess the next logical question would be if you enjoyed exterminating that planets population. Well did you? I hate to say it, but yes, I loved blowing those insects to hell. I mean how dare they be on my planet before I ever even knew it exsisted. What the hell, this is a four X game with on of the X meaning Exterminate.

But if in some far off distant reality those were real living breathing beings, how would you feel about killing them in mass?

The order to commite genocide against an entire planet is an order that I could not give. But then again, who knows the circumstances. What if that planet was filled with 16 billion vampires who have been feeding on your worlds for centuries, then wiping them out would only be the right thing to do. Then again what if they are a planet of women and children vampires? Would the same apply?

Would we as a leader of our own empire not be as evil as those we kill by killing them?

To be an effective leader is to made a decision and never question it. Decisiveness is a weakness that one can not aford when ruling a vast stellor empire. So in the end, burn them or conqeur them it makes little differance. Glass them and your an evil SOB, drop troops and loose them and your a poor leader and will be ousted. Given those alternatives, the Vampires would fry.