Talk:Goddess Ilias/@comment-24664052-20141227105123/@comment-25962313-20150114005834

@Albert art: Here's the thing. There are really only 2 options.

1. Monsters keep raping and eating humans forever.

2. Get rid of the monsters.

"Genocide" has all those negative associations because a) we're all actually human, b) no racial grouping in RL actually lives up to "they're all rapists and murderers". In MGQ those aren't nearly as clear-cut as in RL. You can make a pretty good argument that exterminating all the monsters now is a lesser evil, in the long run, than a decent chunk of humanity being enslaved/raped/killed for the foreseeable future.

In the end, what it boils down to is that Alipheese I was a cosmically sadistic bitch, who saw Ilias had made a sentient race and responded by specifically engineering a predator for them. I mean, imagine you're a cattle farmer. You've made some really neat advancements in breeding them, and you've taken care of them very well, and as a result you've got 10,000 cows and are renowned throughout the country for the superior quality of the meat and milk your farm produces. Then one day, your neighbour drives a truck through your fence, releases 100 hungry bears onto your land, and trollfaces at you. What would you do? Well, of course, you'd shoot all the bears, and then you'd get your neighbour arrested and locked up so that they couldn't do it again. And that's the Great Monster Wars in a nutshell.

I mean yes, by the end, Ilias had pretty much lost it and was lashing out at everyone and everything. This probably had a lot to do with the sheer horror of having to watch as the monsters abused humanity for a thousand years (Alipheese VIII's reign in particular) but being impotent to do anything about it thanks to the terms of the compromise with Alipheese. But her original, pre-Remina plan? I honestly agreed with that. It's not a nice solution; it's a terrible solution. But it is a solution. It's the best of a horrible set of choices.

(I've had an idea to write a fanfic pointing out some of this stuff for a while. But I know fixfics are nearly always terrible, and I'm also holding out some hope that it might be dealt with in Paradox. So I'm waiting for the moment.)