>>49285775
>I do not condome somebody who kills a tiger that got too close to their home even if one cannot prove it was 100% going to attack.
Neither tiger has the mental capacity comparable to youkai nor the situation discussed was an act of self-defense. I'm far from saying that you cannot exterminate youkai under any circumstances. But the situation presented is not heat-of-moment, deed-based extermination, but indiscriminate wiping out of youkai. I don't see why you are even bringing this up, beside padding text.
>Okay, anon, try telling a grieving mother who just lost her son to a youkai attack how they might change.
This is irrelevant, the justice is not dependent on grievances of injured party and even more not dependent on grievances of people related to it. I hope you understand that giving out harsher punishment just because victim cried more is nowhere close to what justice is.
>As for change, fucking when? Not when the time of myth ended and Kanako unified Japan. Not when Minamoto slaughtered most Youkai big wigs. Not when the Meijin era nearly drove them extinct. Not in modern Gensokyo when villagers are livestock and outsiders are playthings to be hunted and tormented for kicks.
We have a very limited view into how exactly youkai within Touhou acted prior to separation via Hakurei Barrier, so I wouldn't be so confident with such accusations. And if you want to fall back onto folklore, than both treating youkai as dangerous murderers without merit and their lack of change over time is not not tenable proposition.
There is a more legitimate argument that those changes that I spoke of, that we see within Touhou, are mostly of little importance, but that is something far different and it's hard to predict from this if there is any limit to the severity of changes.
>How many more chances do youkai need, according to you? How many more do you think they deserve?
Seventy-seven. And one more, just to be safe.
>>49285781
Once again, I'm talking about possibility for change. What Eiki says is the proper conduct for youkai is a separate matter from the fact, that without possibility for change at all, the lecture would be pointless. Therefore, just like youkai can change according to Yama's advice, there is nothing stopping them from changing according to more conventionally humane ways.

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