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KD
Since: May, 2009
2025-05-04 10:26:54
Immortal Life Is Cheap — Killing someone proven capable of being revived is okay.
What Measure Is a Non-Human? — Killing zombies and other monsters is okay.
Edited by KD
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012

Bob is a superhero well-known for his Thou Shalt Not Kill attitude in the face of any odds. However, it turns out that this moral code only objects to permanent death: if a supervillain who was confirmed dead and then comes back somehow (revived by demons, experimental technology, etc.), Bob instantly kills them without even an attempt at a warning, to the shock of onlookers.
Bob then explains that if they came back once, they can come back again, and so he can take their life without moralizing about it (in the same way that killing someone in a game with infinite respawns is less morally objectionable than one with All Deaths Final). This also applies to situations where any revival is highly unlikely after the first time (such as zombies) or when the villain only claims to have returned from the dead when he was actually faking his death all along.
Edited by Chabal2