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[–] lorty@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Maybe I'm misremembering but it wasn't that everyone was fated into undeath, but that they couldn't know for sure who ate the infected grain or not, so Arthas simply decides to kill everyone. And I do think that's a pretty evil way of dealing with it.

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[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

There was an implied question mark there, yes. I think all of the people the game shows you are infected, implying they all are, but Arthas couldn't KNOW that.

I think the main point though is that once the infected did turn, anyone who might've avoided infection would have been killed by those who didn't and had their corpse reanimated anyway. At best a few stragglers might have managed to flee at the cost of an entire new army of undead being raised.

I think that there was no reasonable alternative to what Arthas did if the goal was to defeat the army of undead, and also if the goal was to minimize lives lost.

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