Talk:Dettlaff van der Eretein/@comment-159.144.176.68-20190620142955/@comment-193.39.5.10-20190622091134

Ants aren't sapient, humans are. Humans are every bit as intelligent as Higher Vampires, just less powerful and less knowledgable ('cos they don't live as long to gather knowledge) so the comparison is a false one. The "he's not human" excuse has been used before and it doesn't work. Regis is not human, Johnny is not human, Saskia is not human etc, they are all still quite capable of understanding the worth of human life. And so is Dettlaff. Or did you forget that the whole reason he's angry is because he fell in love with a human? He knows human lives have worth and he's slaughtering them anyway. What Dettlaff does is not a "flaw" or a "mistake," it's an atrocity. The sisters' don't even compare; Syanna is an abuse victim striking out at her abusers and Anna-Henretta's only crime is being blinded by love for her long-lost sister. Syanna deserves to be punished, certainly, but her death toll is, at maximum, 5, with motive (that doesn't make okay, of course, but it is worth noting). Dettlaff killed hundreds, including children, none of whom had wronged him in any way or were even involved in his dispute. And he only did it because people weren't letting him commit a murder in petty revenge. In your route the lesser criminal is brutally murdered rather than being brought to justice while the unrepentant mass murderer goes free, quite able to commit another slaughter the next time he has a tantrum. Even putting aside morality and speaking from a purely practical point of view Dettlaff has proven himself a terrible threat to human society and it's a Witcher's job to kill monsters like that. And yes, he is mentally ill. Do you see other Higher Vampires going on killing sprees, even the ones who don't care about people, like the Unseen Elder?