Ah, yes, that was a fantastic post. Thank you for reminding me about it.

It's not really worth engaging with people's rage towards certain characters. Personal preferences are irrational by nature, although we invariably come up with ways to rationalize our judgements to ourselves after the fact. Nobody is obliged like a given person, and you'll never convince people that they're wrong, let alone by arguing with them. Nor is it relevant whether they do or not.

I rather like Yoshi-P's take on the Amaurotians, although I do think that their level of decisiveness is very much a human trait, especially for anyone used to wielding authority. It's actually a bit of a fine line for the Scions to walk, given how entangled we've become with world politics. We have the power to make changes, and so we do. Sometimes the people that we 'liberate' are less than pleased with the result. It's much less a question of what was 'right' as it is about what 'happened.' Using that framework, it's interesting to see how the contest of wills inside of Amaurot played out.