How do you guys feel about genocide...

How do you guys feel about genocide? I just took over a village and had my knights kill a little over a thousand of the locals (to be replaced with my own people eventually) and despite being mechanically tedious, it was surprisingly fun.

FUCK, OFF.

Just to be clear, this was something that happened in a game, not real life. Actually supporting genocide would be morally suspect.

Me personally? There is no plausible scenario in which exterminating the entirety of a population group is ethically justifiable even during a time of war. In terms of games, it depends on what character I'm playing.

RPGs have you kill massive amounts of people in order to be the hero. I don't know at what point in your quest to murder all the bad guys (sometimes also a different race, like orc) it goes from heroism into genocide. If the orcs are an inherently evil race, does that include their babies? It's interesting to think that the idea of certain sentient creatures being inherently evil makes the baby killer a hero, but in a universe of very obvious and inherent traits it could be totally justified.

And I suppose the question also comes down to how willing you are to set aside modern morals while playing what is usually medieval fantasy. Your example of killing towns of people and replacing them with your own people was a very real thing for most of human history, and I'm sure they were able to rationalise it and justify it using the moral standards of their cultures. I'm sure players could justify it the same way if they wanted to.

Completely normal and should be incentivated if you're running a medieval or ancient setting

>RPGs have you kill massive amounts of people

Depends on system

Source?

>despite being mechanically tedious, it was surprisingly fun.
OP, I think you might be the baddie.

I mean, you can always be the hero by just killing people who have personally actively chosen to spend their lives doing evil stuff, like demon cultists, knockoff Nazis, bandits, and so on.