It’s not even a choice, though. In the entire history of WoW (gamewise, not the entire history of the Warcraft universe), none of the planet-wide or intergalactic threats we’ve faced have managed to destroy a capital city, raze the surrounding region, and push a player race to the brink of extinction. Not the Legion, not the Scourge, not Deathwing, definitely not the Iron Horde, not Yogg-Saron, C’thun, the Sha, etc. But the Horde has. Getting rid of the Horde is making Azeroth a better place. No matter what fortune cookie wisdom is spewed forth from a waiter who’s people have been secluded from the outside world for 10,000 years.
And that’s ignoring the whole sideplot where Sylvanas’ reaction to being told her Azerite mining operations are hastening the demise of the actual world is to increase said operations.
I’m sorry but did you just claim the Scourge didn’t destroy capital cities? Remember Lordaeron? Silvermoon? Remember the 90% of the Elvish population that got decimated?
Remember Ragnaros when he was summoned destroying the land around Blackrock Mountain and basically enthralling the majority of the remaining Dark Iron Dwarves? Remember the Legion being summoned by the Night Elves, shattering the world and breaking apart the continent?
Like… there is so much wrong with your post. So much. And yes, I did notice your charming little bit about “Only in WoW’s lifetime!”. Doesn’t pass muster I’m afraid.
“Nobody else has done this list of very specific things in this very specific timeframe.” Ok? That doesn’t really support them being worse given the specificity.
You just declared the entire populations of entire nations to be culpable for the actions of a narrow subset, or else half the player base to be culpable for actions that the writers railroaded them into.
Whether you look at it from an in-universe or out-of-universe perspective, declaring that entire demographics deserve to suffer, regardless of personal actions, is definitely evil.
The people who are actively at war with the Alliance, despite their faction committing the most destructive act since post-WC3? I would say they are pretty culpable.
Speaking out against genocide and condemning those who silently abide it, is not evil.
All I want is it to be balanced. It’s not very fun to have your faction infighting and guilt tripping you. (unless it’s both, then it’s an obvious story element to further a larger plot.)
In-universe, we don’t get to see anything that isn’t expressly germane to the story the writers want to tell; Saurfang, Zekhan, Baine, and Dad of Orc’s kid are present as stand-ins for all of those discontent with the way Sylvanas is doing things. It is blatantly self-serving of you to pretend that game scale=world scale in this and only this matter.
You want to justify complacency with genocide, then go ahead. I am going to morally stand against you, and I am going to hold you equally accountable as the people who did the genocide in the first place.