Talk:The Ghost in the Tree/@comment-82.74.167.129-20160606170217/@comment-2602:306:CC45:B540:7CB1:515B:A1BB:9CAD-20171126094743

If you look at each life as either alive =1 or dead =0 then it is a larger net gain to kill the spirit so that the village, Anna, the baron etc live. These are fully grown adults that can much more easily adapt to the harsh environment than children. Should you save the children, you are also basically damning them since you destroy the village. You're expecting children to make it out of the swamp and to the next village on their own? The time and energy investment to take a child from childhood to adulthood is massive.better to let the healthy adults keep living and make more children in 5 years than to hope these 5 year olds reach 10.