In a word, no. A monster with those qualities is still a person.
[As if to clarify, Robert continues in an almost explanatory tone.] The Malnosso, for example, in general are monsters in the highest sense. They have no regard for our personal autonomy, or bodily integrity, or our rights to consent or freedom or anything of the sort. They commit acts of atrocities against us, they manipulate us like puppets, and they abuse us to the highest degree. They are undoubtably atrocious and horrifying, to be able to do that...
... But they are still people. Horribly twisted people, but people.
However, that does not give them the right to do what they do to us... [Robert stops, and then his tone softens.] But I could never do it to them...
And I still have hope that they... are not all monsters.
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Date: 2011-05-17 06:33 am (UTC)[As if to clarify, Robert continues in an almost explanatory tone.] The Malnosso, for example, in general are monsters in the highest sense. They have no regard for our personal autonomy, or bodily integrity, or our rights to consent or freedom or anything of the sort. They commit acts of atrocities against us, they manipulate us like puppets, and they abuse us to the highest degree. They are undoubtably atrocious and horrifying, to be able to do that...
... But they are still people. Horribly twisted people, but people.
However, that does not give them the right to do what they do to us... [Robert stops, and then his tone softens.] But I could never do it to them...
And I still have hope that they... are not all monsters.