Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-141.224.199.87-20140730014502/@comment-25222572-20140809002440

BoricuaWolf wrote: StevenMcKupkake wrote: Killing people is evil revenge or not. Yes Kate is a very screwed up in the head individual but she has a line she wont ever cross which is killing her family. Peter doesnt have a line he would kill anyone to accomplist his own goals except maybe Malia. Also Kate did have the chance to kill Scott this episode when he was getting his ass handed to him by a one of her bersekers and to me it would of made sense for her to atleast try to hurt him or atleast acknowledge him being in that fight. Do you think she knows Allison is dead because i would think she does. This is all relative, but I'm not of the opinion that not being willing to kill a family member makes Kate a better (for lack of a more appropriate word) person. Kate is sadistic for no apparent reason, her not applying her attacks to her family doesn't really redeem her in my eyes. Peter does "terrible horrible things," but I don't ever remember him doing them just for the joy of doing them. He want's power; at least he has some motive that's not inherently malicious.

Define "malicious". ;)

I would hesitate to call the pursuit of power "evil", but the way most go about it? Malicious sounds about right.

And really? The "Killing people is evil always" stance? So, everyone who has ever fought in a war is evil? Or defended themselves or someone else they cared about? And if you're taking that stance, Kate killed far more innocent people than Peter did. He killed people who were involved with Kate, either helping set the fire, or covering it up. In the show, all we've seen from Peter is revenge and self-preservation, with an option on ambition. She killed for the hell of it. Innocent people. Almost the entire Hale family, and god alone knows how many others elsewhere.

Now, we don't know how many others Peter killed, but judging from what we've seen on the show, Talia seemed to be reasonably involved in his life, and it seeems unlikely she would let him go on random murder sprees.