It wasnt bad grain in the city it was bad grain in the citizens who then turned into undead because of said grain.
Yet as shown in the game and lore it was quite obvious that they had almost all been infected. Yes, I do agree that he could have saved some yet the situation he was in he could not risk any infected person getting out and spreading. He was yes a bit hotheaded but that’s what happens when your ENTIRE kingdom is under threat by a plague that turns people into the undead. He had no choice. Think about it what would you do? If you were Arthas would you let your subjects turn into undead and then charge at you risking them breaking into Lordaeron more? Or give them a clean death?
Tauren are the only race in all of WoW who have never personally committed a war crime.
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Horde pillage the alliance betas and take their wenches with the green fever
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I do agree that most of the Horde are quite bad except for the Tauren. They had no choice but to align with the Horde or be killed by the Centaur.
Was it though? They were infected and already beginning to turn into the undead.
What other option was there to prevent an epidemic?
Um when they first met the orcs they were a group of people who were trying to find a place they could call home and had done nothing wrong, also they just got saved from extinction because of them. The only experience they might have had about orcs was a story of prob the most bada** orc to ever live who single handedly held off the burning legion for long enough for them to close the portal and managed to cause Sargeras himself to bleed.
Arthas absolutely had a choice. That was what both Jaina and Uther were telling him. He just couldn’t be bothered to listen.
It was mass murder, and it was evil. There’s a reason the Purging of Stratholme was the turning point for Arthas, and it wasn’t because he did a good thing.
There was nothing wrong the Purge of Stratholme. You gonna tell me that it was somehow more moral to let everyone in the city turn into a zombie?
Trolls were in basically the same situation except replace centaurs with sea witch and murloks
Arthas and Jaina didn’t know what Arthas did, they were wrong and by abandoning him prob made his corruption all the more certain. If they had stayed and supported and counciled him its possible he never would have become the lich king.
The Darkspear tribe, too, was cannibalistic. Trolls are cannibals and extremely savage. When eating humans, trolls prefer to drain the body of blood and stripping the stringy meat from the bone to make into jerky.
Jaina and Uther were blinded by not willing to ever do anything that could be considered a bit morally grey like the purge. I guess yes he did have a choice but the choices were let the undead break out since a blockade around the city would off failed. Or give them a clean death.
They were under the influence of fel magic (demon blood) at that time. They are actually as good like humans or even better.
The darkspear were a small tribe and were against most of the other tribes because they were one of the less savage and bloodthirsty of the troll tribes. Not all trolls are savage.
Arthas indiscriminately murders an entire city of people because he had to take the quick and easy path and wouldn’t consider any other options, and you call Jaina and Uther the blind ones?
That is absurd.
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They only stopped this savagness once they joined the horde since despite the horde still being bad they were atleast more civilized. Then they pretty much didn’t join the other trolls with the blood god was most likely because 1. they were with the horde and 2. it was so obviouse that the trolls would fail.
What other options were there for them that would most likely result in victory and stopping Stratholme from contaminating the rest of Lordaeron.
No they were like this when the gurubashi empire split. Its part of why the other tribes hated them.
I’m not getting into hypotheticals with you.
The fact is, the game itself presented the Purging of Stratholme as an evil act of mass murder that directly contributed to Arthas becoming a pawn of Ner’zhul and ultimately the Lich King.
Saying the Purge was a moral good is disgusting. It was indiscriminate mass murder.