Talk:Dettlaff van der Eretein/@comment-159.144.176.68-20190620142955/@comment-2001:8003:2057:2C00:3B:CAC1:F498:26A1-20190830031850

So I should be allowed to belt a baby against a wall because it's stupider than me? I should slaughter dogs en masse because one bit me once? Dettlaff chose to live among humans, learned the language, experience the culture. Thus he was bound by human law. If he didn't like it he could have lived in a cave like the Unseen elder. Perhaps if he was able to keep his word, which was to have Syanna explain herself to him, (not once did the disingenuous liar say he was gonna murder her without a word) perhaps he could have understood that she herself acted from her own place of hurt just like he did. If that changed his mind about slaughtering her, great, if not then oh well, at least we tried to reason this shit out first. And lets face it, her hurt of "I was tortured, abused, starved to the point I tried eating bark, and left to die because my parents disowned me and my sister lied to protect herself" is much more significant than Dettlaff's "I liked a girl but she broke my heart, but I'm allowed to enact a genocide because I'm a vampire and we care more."

By that reasoning if Syanna was a vampire she should be allowed to purge the world and then ride the Naglfar into other worlds and purge them too. But no. Because it doesn't matter your culture, your species, your personal view. You don't get to enforce it on others and slaughter them according to your own whims. Dettlaff was a monster and if Regis really mattered to him more than his own hurt feelings then he should never put Regis into a position where Regis would be outcast. If a higher vampire is the only thing that can kill a higher vampire, then Dettlaff should have just killed himself.