Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25176701-20150119013621/@comment-26247132-20150414215412

"If they had answered, the massacre could have been prevented." Remember, most of them don't speak English. Besides, Lincoln has already shown that Grounders do not talk to their enemies, so even if they did understand Finn, they still wouldn't have told him anything. Regardless of Finn's mental state, if someone shoots up a school or a mall, should we just let them off the hook because they had PTSD?

As to Bellamy's part in the culling, he didn't know they were going to start killing off Arkers until Clarke told him that was the next natural step. That's when he immediately helped them try to find the radio. They had not been in contact with the Ark up to that point (not until after the culling in Contents Under Pressure) and the only person on earth who initially knew of the dire air shortage was Clarke. Even then, she still didn't know they would be killing people off the Ark that quickly (remember, she was in lock-up for the prior year). No one on earth could have known.

Kane was also not the one who made the ultimate call on the culling: that was Jaha, as he very specifically pressed the button to kill all those people himself. And if it weren't for Jaha originally abstaining from the vote, those people would have already died 10 days earlier before the radio even came into play on earth. In fact, it would have only been 100 people who died instead of 320 if Jaha hadn't waited.

One other thing that I think a lot of people might have missed at the end of Season  1 is Finn's reaction when he killed the Reaper. That was the start of his downward spiral/PTSD/whatever you want to call it. He was traumatized by his first kill and he wasn't ever really the same again after crossing that line. In that moment, he went from being a pacifist to a killer (regardless of it being done in self-defense). To Finn, killing one person was just as bad as killing hundreds so after that point, what difference would it make to him if he also killed Delano and massacred an entire village? He wasn't ever able to properly come to terms with killing that Reaper (not enough time or therapists on the ground) so he lost an integral piece of who he was (a pacifist) and it broke him.