Talk:Weepers/@comment-149.159.125.109-20121012163318/@comment-5053772-20121108153435

Killing a weeper is a crime, because you a human being. In the good ending you can see Sokolov and Piero treat them, which pretty much indicates that they can indeed be healed. Just because the plague causes them to act like madmen, this doesn't degrade them to animals.

The empress was against killing them and wanted to search for a cure. Lord regent on the othersider openly decimated them. Regent, however, was recless and even wanted to use a plague to eradicate the poor.

Even the tallboys, who do most of the killing, have to be drugged in order to stay kinda sane.

Also rats are the main cause of the plague's spread, not weepers. Killing the weepers does not keep the plague in check.

Oh guards wear masks that cover mouth and nose for protection.