User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-11942246-20130816050909/@comment-7472785-20130816145730

WOW - what a debate!

Not picking a winner (-) ), I'd add that applying our moral standards and education experiences to the RWBY world may be second best.

If to make parallels to our military education for simpler understanding, I would not say Signal (and Sanctum) are boot camps and Beacon is, I don't know, like West Point or Sandhurst maybe.

I see Signal as a warrior school, you graduate, you get classified as accomplished warriopr - whatever that may mean in the RWBY world. A world we know to be at relative peace, BUT with a long standing and constant fight history.

Beacon I see as a specialist school - like a Ranger od Special Forces School. These are extremely hard to master, the 'students' get pushed up to and beyond their limits constantly, both physically as menntally. The graduates are the elites of their class, those who fail - and in these schools more than half usually fail - still are accomplished warriors.

In our ethic world, the death of participants is shunned, but that doesn't have to apply to the RWBY world, as it didn't apply in ours historically or in other than Western civilizations. We really don't know, but death or injury could be an acceptable outcome in RWBY in THIS partiicular training. If so, the students, and their parents for that matter, would know and have accepted that.