Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160415202515/@comment-27779933-20160420210900

Myheartisskippingbeats wrote: cage rebelled like lucifer, jesus!

wallace was the president and cage turned against him, he says that everyone wants to go to the ground.....

so if jasper killed cage, noone would stop killing skaikru, noone! emerson was about to breach the door, and even if they could taker him out, they had no army, and after cage dead, jasper, octavia and maya would be captured by mountain men, safely on level 5, and would just use them aswell as other prisoners....

clarke knew the mountain had to go as soon as the doors opened and grounders started coming out.... she knew that lexa had no choise, the mountain had no more use from grounders and thgey would kill them because they had a permanenet solution, skaikru, and letting the grounder go would just make enemy manpower..... skaikru, on the other hand, would all die because cage wasnt the only one who was doing that to them, they might get leaderless, but not without a purpuse, a reasaon, a way, a path, a goal...... to kill them and use their bone marrow..... clarke gave cage an option and she was lest with only to kill everyone...... it was the only option left, so dont even try to understand jaspers POV, it is wrong, if he dousnt know it, we do....

so yeah, clarke knew it had to be done, like dropship, it was jasper who burned them, but it was her plan..... she always does what she must to save her people and they dont even see that she is willing to kill everyone if that means their safety.... thats a leader! jasper lost someone, yes, but there was no way maya was going to survive.... even if jasper killed cage, nothing would have changed the end result because cage was not the only problem..... I really feel like if you want to discuss the ethics of the Mount Weather Genocide go start a different discussion but I'll say this. What you said is wrong because not everybody on Mount Weather believed in Cage's way Maya's own mother died because she believed what they were doing to the Grounders was wrong and even her own father and many others felt same way even Dante eventually saw the error of his way and was going to let the delinquents go before Cage stepped in. But hey let's forget there were good decent people in there helping the delinquents out or the innocent children the other problem with irradiating level 5 was Clarke only talked to Cage about irradiating level 5 and only his soldiers new but if the other citizens new about this I'm sure they would have done what Bellamy did to Pike give him up if it means saving themselves or saving someone they love. Clarke at the drop ship killing the 300 Grounders is different compared to Clarke wiping out all of Mount Weather which was more like Finn's massacre at the Grounder village on a larger scale even Lexa made the distinction clear when Clarke offered herself in Finn's place.

P.S. Emerson would have breached the door but Bellamy would have killed him but since they didn't have time to film that part they decided to let Emerson live.