Assassinate Orin? [Closed]

[Shruikan]

The thing is, Orin isn't our only concern. Assassinating Orin could save someone else -- or save a lot of pokemon, as we use the actions currently spent on him to complete the Ritual.
We're concerned about his soul, but what happens to the souls of those killed by Stalkers?


I believe the question we're meant to ask ourselves is, is the well-being of one pokemon as important as that of multiple others? And, what if it's someone mean and old and bad who nobody likes and doesn't do much? Is it worth that Tepig kid being killed? Or the Decidueye that we've wasted 4 actions on? Is giving up on Orin and his, let's be fair, miserable existence worth that Alolan Sandslash getting killed, and the Sandshrew kid ending up like Dee'mang? Traumatized and friendless and orphaned and adopted by an abusive parent?

And honestly, what happens to the soul of a Pokemon in Salvage Keep when they die naturally? Do we have a good and bad place? Are souls returned to the pool to be drawn again, or reassembled? Are they simply dissipated into the air? What about the soul of an old, dry, bitter man with hatred and murder in his heart? Even if he's spared *our* judgement, what's to say he's not damned anyway?

And I think it's a valid take, to think we ought to worry about saving Pokemon's lives and making those lives better, which we CAN do and see, instead of worrying about what MIGHT happen to one's soul after life, which we have no idea about.

Or, well, some of you might. But I haven't played before, so I'm not concrete on the cosmology.

You are saying that one pokemons life isn't worth sacrificing several others, and I agree. But we're not talking about a life, we're talking about eternity.
What you are suggesting is like cutting off someone's hand to sell so you can buy candy for some orphans. The masses are happy for a few hours, and the other guy is crippled for the rest of his life. There's nothing saying that he won't lose his hand in the future anyway, so that's perfectly fine, right?

I agree that we shouldn't worry about what might happen. Assasinating Orin will guarentee that he gets a bad afterlife. What we can do is not kill him and give him a chnce to avoid it, just like everyone else has.

I agree that it is a valid take, but it is one that I STRONGLY disagree with.



Regardless, with confermation that we can make multiple cages, once complete we can restrain multiple pokemon. Therefore, the pressing reason to kill Orin is gone.