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I am not suggesting Scott become a cold blooded killer or just execute people willy-nilly. But having inflexible positions that can’t be examined on a case by case basis is not moral conviction, it is a cop out that allows him to fall back to a position of not having to make tough decisions.

I have a “pacifist” friend that once told me he would rather allow himself to die than to take the life of someone about to kill him. I asked him if would be willing to take the life of an armed intruder that was about to kill him and his entire family and his answer was no. IMO, that does not necessarily indicate amazing strength of character. In some ways, I see it is the opposite; to let others you care about suffer because you could not live with the decision of doing what is necessary and justifiable to protect them from someone set out to hurt them is selfish and about you not about what is right or necessary.

Scott is the same. He would supposedly sacrifice his life to protect those he cares about but he won’t “sacrifice” his convictions to do the same? It would be one thing if there was a way to imprison or depower the baddies in teen wolf. But since there isn’t, the decision of who lives and dies has an effect on not just those allowed to live but their future victims.

I could even accept Scott’s refusal to be the executioner but the fact that he also often stops the killing of those baddies that you know will take innocent lives in the future to placate his conscience is a form of selfishness. The Darach had already killed double digit people and you know would have killed innocents again to build its power back up, but not only does Scott not want to kill it he prevents Deucalion from doing it? There is no way to imprison it so let’s let it go free back into the world and kill again so long as Scott’s conscience is clear? That’s why the writers had to kill the Darach in the end – otherwise the viewers would have realized that Scott knowingly and selfishly released a remorseless super powered killer back in to the world to satisfy his morals.

I love the Teen Wolf show (though I’ve been annoyed lately by Scott) but in this respect, Arrow got it “right” much better than Teen Wolf (and Arrow also markets to a young audience). On Arrow (after S1), Oliver Queen  only kills if he feels there is no other option to stop the baddy or prevent it from harming innocents in the future.

Derek does make the tough choice. He bit Alison’s mom. Either she would have died on become one of them. Either way, he shut down a cold blooded killer that almost killed Scott. The two baddies that Scott should have let others do what they needed to do was the Darach and Gerard. Either was an extreme danger to innocents.

The test should be simple. Anyone that tries to kill him, his friends or family, and are likely to try again,  he should give maybe one warning to:  “I’m giving you a pass this time; if you endanger me or those I care about again, it is over for you.”  That way he doesn’t become a cold blooded killer but he protects those of his “pack”.