Talk:Ghoul/@comment-186.18.247.141-20150818015138/@comment-26331553-20150818113106

I actually drew the exact opposite conclusion. From the first page, I felt like the author wanted me to see the Ghouls as the Poor Misunderstood Oppressed Minority and the CCG as the Evil Racists, and frankly I never bought it. Specing out the numbers from most big predators and ghoul dietary requirements, they would have to kill between One Hundred and One Hundred and Fifty Million people every year for food alone, plus people killed by Binge Eaters and Gourmet crap.

While a lot of people want to excuse that as an inherent consequence of their nature, that does nothing to change the final impact of their actions ''. ''The father who loses his son, the man who loses his newlywed wife, the child left alone in the world... their loved ones are just as dead. It's easy to romanticize a horror you've not only never experienced, but lack a frame of reference to understand, but that doesn’t make it any less awful when viewed rationally.

The idea of a pre-Colombian 'Noble Savage' is a popular one, but the quarter of a million people who had their hearts torn out on the altars of Tenochtitlan might disagree.The mongols were savage butchers, not architects of empires. Pirates were sociopaths of the high seas rather than anything admirable. And the Ghouls, whatever their reasons or FEELINGS kill more people each year than Hitler and Stalin combined.

So I know my side.

