Plus the hero killed like thirty goddamn people along the way to the big bad guy. Some of those guys had families too, asshole! You’re already a monster!
And if you let him live, he’s just going to keep killing other people eventually. All you win is a moral high ground for barely 5 minutes after the credits roll. Monsters are really good at convincing themselves that they’re not monsters!
Plus the hero killed like thirty goddamn people along the way to the big bad guy. Some of those guys had families too, asshole! You’re already a monster!
And if you let him live, he’s just going to keep killing other people eventually. All you win is a moral high ground for barely 5 minutes after the credits roll. Monsters are really good at convincing themselves that they’re not monsters!