Talk:Weepers/@comment-149.159.125.109-20121012163318/@comment-75.37.2.71-20121108120140

Sorry for the delay everyone.

Other Anon: Wonderful maturity there, mate.

Buroda: Yeah, and that's where we go back to the issues of "you guys really think this Chaos system through?" as directed to the Devs.

Snowskeeper: First and foremost, killing Weepers as killing citizens again goes back to making zero sense, and making a giant hole in the game's chaos system. For the very same reason that even if Weepers are sentient we still have to deal with the fact that a large majority of them are in fact openly hostile and clawing at people willfully. The average civilian might not know the full details since they don't have The Heart, but I'm pretty dang sure they noticed the net result. Heck, there's a reason why summarily killing people with the plague tended not to be protested all that much.

Also, while I can agree that the regime would be launching propaganda against Corvo, I do not see this being justified by killing Weepers. For one? If they're trying to do it to make Corvo look bad, they're doing it by trying to make him look bad *For doing exactly what they're doing in far greater numbers and with far less discrimination.* Yes, I think we can all agree that the Regency Government of Hiram Burrows is not the brightest thing to come along, but I think that this is a bit transparently stupid even for them (note the mantras they use in their propaganda, for one; I doubt they'd obviously go against what they're saying clearly enough that any iliterate person could see).

Again, that doesn't go back to the issue that they don't calculate things like the Wolfhounds and Rats out, because it doesn't add up unless you remove the Chaos mechanics from the realm of measuring the Chaos rather than Corvo's morality. The fact that we don't really have a system for how much the rats get to eat goes back to my main point: catagorizing Weepers as civilians makes insanely little sense. Making them raise Chaos even above the guards that are keeping hte plague at bay makes even less.