Not sure how you got that from the article. It says
In Tolkien’s Christian framework, [being open to morality, like Men] in turn meant they must have souls, so killing them would be wrong without very good reason.
It’s not them thinking and feeling that’s the problem, it’s that Tolkien’s believed that you shouldn’t kill things with souls.
This is a nice contrast to Frieren where demons don’t have souls and don’t seem to be open to morality, either; they understand it in order to manipulate humans but consider themselves outside its framework.
NineSwords@ani.social 4 days ago
It’s a fantasy world. If I can accept the concept of magic I can also accept the concept of an entirely evil race. I really don’t see the need to overthink it.
(Also, I guess im cringe then. I can live with that.)
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Then the Frieren writer should make them objectively evil and not contradict themselves. I like it when writers put some thought into their genocides.
remon@ani.social 3 days ago
I think it’s fundamentally not what the show is about and not every show has to tackle every moral problem. Sometimes you just need interesting antagonists in a story and it would be boring of they were just drones.
Don’t overthink it.