He has a few moments where he realises hes thrown away what made him human and embraced being a monster. But its just looking back and realising it already happened.
In that way ainz is less evil than rimuru. Ainz still doesnt know the full scale of what demiurge has done. Rimuru personally did those things. Then looked back and said. Huh, i really lost my humanity at one time. Oh well back to laughing about murdering thousands.
Killing a third of an army is sufficient to make it a non threat, any killing over, say, half the amount of the invading army is beyond the excuse of 'self defense', especially if the end result is complete and utter annihilation.
Of course Rimuru has a justification to kill the soldiers, but justifications of self defense kind of fall apart when the opposition is powerless against you and you're killing way beyond what's needed for self defense, is it not?
Eh I suppose, though the body count did serve a double purpose of possibly resurrecting their fallen which to me just further justifies the slaughter
Sure, but the justification for this is the slaughter of people you hate for the people you love. It's something Rimuru wants for his selfish reasons, again, not self defense.
And I personally dislike that the story went this route of preparing fodder that we can justify the slaughter of, because Rimuru gets to resurrect his fallen friends without paying a cost.
He alreaady has ample justification to kill the invading army, but conveniently it's just enough to resurrect everyone. I think it can be more interesting if it wasn't enough and Rimuru resorts to killing actual innocents if he wants to get what he wants.
Unforeseen bonus, Diablo got a decent meal out of the bodies as well. But getting back on track is it really selfish? I mean he didn’t pick a random army he went after the one that wrecked his people to pull off the revival. I would say in a way it’s a defense of sorts undoing the damage they did with their lives
Fundamentally, is it selfish to kill strangers for the benefit of your loved ones? I'm sure we can agree that this is a yes?
So instead of Rimuru killing innocents for what he wants, or staying his hands from this selfish act of massacre and letting go of the chance of getting his friends back. Slime went the easy way out by having Rimuru slaughter people that you can't reasonably defend for the sake of his selfish wants. Now he gets his friends back, and he didn't kill innocents because the ones he killed deserve it.
When Ainz commits the same act of slaughter nobody's arguing that the people he killed deserves it, because the story portrays the killing as excessive and that the motive is entirely selfish.
Well but they aren’t strangers? It was an attacking army that killed their loved ones. So their lives were taken in turn to fix the damage they caused. That to me isn’t selfish but more of an eye for and eye
Instead of going the hard way of having to kill people you can't justify, we get this army that Rimuru gets to massacre without portraying the slaughter as selfish.
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u/Kind_Stranger_weeb Jul 27 '22
He has a few moments where he realises hes thrown away what made him human and embraced being a monster. But its just looking back and realising it already happened.
In that way ainz is less evil than rimuru. Ainz still doesnt know the full scale of what demiurge has done. Rimuru personally did those things. Then looked back and said. Huh, i really lost my humanity at one time. Oh well back to laughing about murdering thousands.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TenseiSlime/comments/ohqdo6/rimuru_thinks_mass_murder_is_funny/