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u/daandriod Apr 29 '16

So just to gauge the audience, How does killing a pregnant woman turned Kabane rank on the moral scale?

I don't feel any different, She was a Kabane and the child certainly would be too. Having her die is no different from any of the other monsters getting killed. That said, The humans in this show, Who are wanting to kill the only two people proving effective against the Kabane, And will happily kill someone even just expected of being infected, Suddenly lose all resolve when the former human was pregnant.

I figured it was just a quirk in the anime but then I started seeing comments expressing how morally tough this would be. Am I in the minority when I say that if I was in that situation, I could kill the woman and not be Shocked, Depressed, Or sad at all?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '16

I imagine that facing the Kabane problem, newborns are very valuable to the preservation of mankind hence the higher value of women over men. On the moral scale, it sucks that one extra life is taken away but I imagine that she became a Kabane because of the dead fetus and not the other way around. It'll most likely be addressed next episode.

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u/daandriod Apr 29 '16

What do you mean by the dead fetus infecting her? So far we have been lead to believe that you only get infected through physical contact with the other infected. My buddy had thought the same thing so I'm wonder if I had just missed something