Talk:Nailsmith/@comment-38008024-20200219184043/@comment-36029834-20200412034227

Generally speaking, ritual killing is viewed as a bad thing. Even if it's self-imposed, it puts a single act or emotion above the value of a life; which is made up of hundreds of thousands of experiences. It's a shortsighted perspective on the joys, pains, successes, failures and progress of life; it's wasteful of the victims accrued wisdom, knowledge, skills and relationships, and ignores the emotional weight that the death puts on everyone who knew the victim; including the killer. This isn't a mercy killing of someone in chronic pain, or a death of honour to pay for failure or save someone else; and even those are highly debatable. I haven't taken any ethics classes, but I would say it is definitely not moral to kill in this instance.

In any case; I'd say the whole point of the Happy Couple path is to teach that killing him is the wrong choice. Just read his dialogue at Sheo's hut! All he talks about points towards him finding out that there's more to life than he had thought in the past; and seeing the value in carrying on and experiencing more of what life has to offer; even in the middle of what is basically a zombie apocalypse.