Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-26814591-20150724030749/@comment-76.17.103.248-20150726211828

We're talking specifically about torture here, not the Draconian rules set on the Ark. Although people still do it, there is a universal standard of morality that frowns on torture. There are  some lines that you're not suppose to cross if you're living in a civilized society. Do people always live up to this standard? Hell no. But you don't make it the norm either.

What was the point of making Finn suffer an excruciatingly painful death? It wasn't going to bring those 18 people back. It wasn't going to make the dead feel better. The dead can't feel ANYTHING. All it would do is provide sadistic pleasure to the living to satisfy their baser need for vengence. Indra said that her viilagers deserved justice. What they wanted to do to Finn wasn't  justice. Justice is administering the punishment that a person deserves. Finn didn't deserve that. Nobody does. The grounders were going to take his life. Was that not enough? And how self righteous was that even? They acted as if they, themselves, didn't have a hand in what happened to those people, as if they weren't as guilty of the same crime as Finn.

Nobody said that the sky people were paragons of virtue. They shock lashed Abbey. But their form of execution was swift. They did have a limit, so as to maintain at least some semblance of humanity. No one is innocent on this show. But some are definitely worse than others.