Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-24891101-20140523184603

Probably not much. They're responsible for the existential protection of their communities, and humanity, from the Grimm. Wars are not their responsibility. They are not soldiers, in a legal sense, so war is not their purview, in the same way as police continue to do their job during wartime: they have a different responsibility. I'd say that Hunters' responsibilities begin and end with the Grimm, with other potential duties being subsidiary, and tacked on by governments, both ancient and modern, when they realized that having well-trained combatants allows them to have other duties.

The government probably does have Hunters in roles that are not precisely Hunting proper, but that means that, in that capacity, they are no longer acting as a Hunter, per se, in the ancient tradition monster hunting sense. They are merely Hunter-trained specialists doing their jobs.

(I wonder what the dropout rate is at places like Beacon? Or, just how many graduates actually take a job as Hunters? )

The thing is, everyone has superpowers, barring (undemonstrated) medical anomaly. Sure, force cannot solve the root of conflict. But it's not their job to do so. I'm not sure anyone expects them to do so.