Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25176701-20150119013621/@comment-25869525-20150119030222

You made some excellent points here, I think. I have trouble with some people who seem to think one batch of killings caused by one person is unforgivable, while another set of killings by a different person is perfectly fine.

We may try to consider motive. Finn truly believed the grounders were responsible for Clarke and the others being taken, or at least had knowledge about their whereabouts. By then, Finn and everyone else on the dropship was aware the grounders will use torture on anyone they capture, so he had a picture in his mind of what Clarke would be subjected to usder Grounder "care". When the clothing and gear from the dropship was found, why didn't the grounders say where they got it from? They probably could have prevented those 18 deaths if they'd just SAID SOMETHING.

Bellamy, by forcing the others to remove their bands, was knowingly condemning every single person aboard the Ark to an eventual, but inevitable, death in orbit, if he'd succeeded in convincing the people on the Ark that Earth was not survivable. And, he did all this under the auspices of "protecting his sister". The more I think of it, a case could be made that he is indirectly responsible for everyone that died in the crash of the second dropship. The ones that hijacked it, acted on the (correct) belief that the Ark was doomed, and they were acting in the interests of self preservation.