Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160415202515/@comment-27607065-20160420234653

Jimmy782 wrote: 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 knew 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. There is a difference between killing soldiers and killing civilians.

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. I think Clarke had very few options. It's also important to keep in mind that it was very rushed and sudden situation where they had to think fast with a massive amount of pressure. I think the right thing to do would've been for her to NOT kill Dante and outright tell Cage "I WILL eradicate Mount Weather if you don't let them go. I WILL kill everyone" and then Cage would've had to comply.

Killing Dante was pointless in my opinion. It just made Cage more unwilling to listen. But again, it was a very tense and rushed situation, so I like to think Clarke/Bellamy/Monty did the best they could. None of them wanted innocent people to die, but it's how things sadly ended up, and there were few ways of avoiding it.