Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
Which makes it not very easy too since we dont even know if we truly kill all the things or knock them out.
That's a good point, yet the story is very fickle about that. They sometimes explicitly say you killed people and a plot battle can go either way (Nero being alive, Gaius' other henchmen, not so much), but sometimes they outright say you didn't intend to kill them (BLM 50-60 quest where you end up killing them because they were in bad health to begin with, but the implication is that you were holding back and only meant to neutralize the threat).
Thing is, it's enough to take this one example to say that maybe we ALWAYS mean to just knock them out, in which case unless stated explicitly, we haven't killed anyone - which really reduces the body count. And also makes us all the more hotshots at what we do because damn, that's some skill required to do that.