Talk:Dettlaff van der Eretein/@comment-91.67.95.240-20160727084255/@comment-27722422-20190315231800

Can die, true, but still unbelievable and unlikely for them, like the same concept of death for a child: ask any of them if they understand that they can die and check the reply. They are aware of the possibility of death especially considering humans but do not understand why they (us) fear it and what it actually means - the end of life, remember the dialogue of Geralt and Regis about a million of crowns. Moreover, Dettlaff talks about bruxae killed by Geralt and helps half-departed Regis - he knows the idea of death, but for him (like many others among his kind) it is not that meaningful, he could easily leave Regis be in the state he was and won’t be censured in vampire society.

So yes, Dettlaff fears to lose Sianna, but she is again a part of his pack and that makes her different from other people, whose lives are widely considered by the vampires ain’t long enough to be worth living. Why does he ‘know[s] humans would rather not be brutally slaughtered’? He values the lives of some humans - his friend and passion, and he didn’t want to participate in some bloody binges back in the time because of being hikky and restless, but the fact doesn’t make him a champion of human life value.

And even if he knows some of the human life terms and conceptions, criminal law (speaking broadly) brings in those complicated institutions of guilt and all the stuff not idly - he is still not human enough to be judged according to human morals and rules, since being a vampire he has a completely different way of thinking and a unique system of values and obviously all his assassinations and the lives the Night of Long Fangs took are not a concern for him, because he just cannot understand what they mean and what makes them valuable - he has no culpability and cannot realize blameworthiness of his deeds and actions.