Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20161205132101/@comment-25936766-20161209211559

Still better than liquified crystals.

But yeah, the thing about Ender is: 1) Military. If you cannot handle a few bullies, you won't be able to handle the chaos during a conflict. So stuff like that is allowed to an extent.

2) Ender had a bad case of the "Hurt them so much they never hurt you again" principle, which his superiors took advantage of.