Talk:Lexa/@comment-25176701-20150723011130/@comment-26247132-20150723035243

"...because I exposed them to killing at a young age."

The problem here is that you think you have a choice. If you had a choice in the matter, the world wouldn't be "kill or be killed." Until there is a guarantee that you no longer need to play offense to someone else's defense (i.e. through forming alliances and truces), your children will continue to be at risk of exposure to death and war no matter what you try to do to stop it from happening...if you even survive long enough to raise your own children.

"They think torturing and killing people for revenge is right, that it's justice."

With Lexa forming the Coalition, I'd say the Grounders were on their way to becoming more "civilized." It was only a couple of centuries ago when people were still drawn and quartered as punishment (it wasn't even abolished in England till 1870). Even more specifically, it's not some sort of vengeance against the perpetrator; it's mainly used as a deterrent for potential wrong-doers with the severity of the crime determining the severity of the sentence (unlike the Arkers who didn't give a crap about severity and just floated people anyway).