Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-4010415-20181118185718

Nikoli the rebel wrote:

1. Remember when Salem raised an army and marched against the gods? Why did the gods feel they needed to destroy ALL of humanity. They could have just taken away Salem's immortality. Then she would die and she could be with Ozma.

2. Altering human brain chemistry to reduce agression would create a meek, servile, and slave-like population but not one that would be prone to violence. You can also increase the rate of female births to male births as it has been shown that a surplus male population or culture of polygamy will create a lot of male incels and that a lot of male incels increase the chances of war, domestic terrorism, violence, and rape.

3. You can also put all 4 kingdoms into one city a la Attack on Titan and hope that the threat of the Grimm will unify the humans. 1. It's not so much that they wanted that badly to teach Salem a lesson, as it is that the God of Darkness appears to be incredibly impulsive. He just does whatever he feels like on a whim, possibly even acting on emotion rather than actually thinking about the consequences.

When Salem approached him about Ozma, he brought Ozma back despite the agreement he had with GoL that they wouldn't do such a thing. Why? Well...

God of Light: I am abiding by the rules we agreed upon!

God of Darkness: Rules that I now see are ever in your favor. And yet the day a mortal comes to pray at my feet before your own, so do you arrive to lay your judgment upon me!

The episode gives us a view of both of the brothers' shrines, which sit at the foot of the stairs to their residence. GoL's shrine had offerings on and around it, even on the stairs themselves. GoD's shrine only had the skeleton of someone who had been stabbed. Everyone wanted to worship GoL, everyone wanted to pray at his feet. GoD finally had someone come to him, and Salem made him believe that she had chosen him first. As such, he acted on impulse, granting his visitor what she wanted because it was so rare for anyone to actually pray to him.

This shows his impulsiveness and the possibility that he acts on emotion.

When the humans attacked them with magic - the very thing he had given to them as a gift ("My own gift to them... used against me.") - it angered him. Wiping out humanity may have just been a kneejerk reaction, a godly tantrum, on his part. Why should he care about the beings who never visit him, never pray to him, when they use the gift he had given them against him?

2. Did the science to do such a thing exist back then? Does Ozma's magic have the ability to do that? Does Ozma have a moral stance against altering humans in such a way?

3. There's that pesky free will that humans have, which leads some of us to go "No, fuck you, I do what I want. You can't tell me where to go! I'll live wherever the hell I want to!" That, and some people, especially the elderly, tend to go "I've lived here all my life, and I don't want to leave."