Stripped of the Warrior of Light to solve all their problems, when it came to safeguarding their people from Primals how far does one think the City State leaders would go? How bloody would their hands be, I wonder?

It's easy look back with hindsight and criticise the actions of a character forced into an impossible position but I've noticed it often involves stripping away the nuance that exists - such as the innate disadvantage Garleans have by not being able to manipulate aether as easily as the other races as well as the very long history of being on the defensive. So I'm happy to forgive them for reacting less than perfectly when pushed into a corner.

That aside, it's also fiction - so I don't need in-game nations to be a lazy copy and paste of real world modern concerns and ideals. Especially when all it would take is a solar flare destroying the power grids to fling the entirety of the world into chaos and then what is considered 'moral' or 'necessary' would change rather swiftly.