Talk:Weepers/@comment-149.159.125.109-20121012163318/@comment-75.36.167.117-20121015034841

Now, I realize you probably didn't mean it, and I'm sorry if I come off as offensive or standoffish, BUT: Don't EVER tell me to not compare those two again, particularly since I have two people in my own direct family *alone* who can attest to both, and from what I've heard they're very damn similar. Particularly since A: there were some patients who were indeed classified as malicious, and some POWs could in fact be "cured" by breaking the indoctrination. The fact is, they're remarkably (but not exactly) similar right down to the impaired reasoning skills and ability to determine right from wrong. So your assertion in such terms is flatly offensive on a real-life level. It's hardly more exaggerated than yours are, positing a comparison between someone *removing* all capacity for free action and someone being impaired into murder.

I know you probably didn't intend it in such a way, but that's just a due warning: let's drop it.

As for the rest, legally someone who is mentally impaired who tried to kill someone else without provocation would be regarded as a criminal. This is evident from two or so centuries of legal tradition. Normally is used as a mitigating factor for those to make sure they aren't unduly punished for what they can't help, but you'd be legally justified to kill them in self-defense during the act. That's based off of about two centuries of legal tradition designed to help those impaired mentally, and I doubt that the Isles have a more enlightened legal history than our own, so it still stands. Policy on plague victims was even less enlightened.

I'll work on the link, but the bottom line is that at the very least regardless of what Chaos means or is meant to represent (in many ways it acts a lot more like a Karma "Good Corvo/Bad Corvo" meter than it probably should), it does increase the presence of the plague. The point about the Weepers being contained is valid if they're not running up against anyone else, but free walking in the street means they pose a threat that probably is larger than giving the rat population more food to grow (assuming that in-universe Rats eat dead Weepers).

So there's still a disconnect somewhere in the equation.