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Originally Posted by Polarpew
Can't assign value to human lives? Our entire human history is basically a series of evaluations on lives of others, in the world of Bleach it isn't a weighing the lives based on 'what if'. It's very clear cut, one person with a personality or millions of lives each with a personality. What I'm trying to say, it's not moral when it's situations where you say 'kill one life to save a thousand hypothetically in the future' or 'removing a threat to the livelihood of the many'. It's a fact that the existence of hollows are holding countless souls hostage until they are purified by Shinigami, why should mindless Gillians be slaughered with no problem but the second it's an Adjuchas, we've got a problem?
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PolarPew you're as well forgetting or missing another point that not all souls that are eaten by or become Hollows were morally good in their previous lives as humans.
Remember that in the universe of Bleach there's a Hell as well, and all morally evil souls go there.
An example was the Shrieker Hollow from a case before Ichigo and company went to SS to rescue Rukia; that was a story from the earliest arc of the manga at the beginning.
The soul of the Shrieker Hollow was that of serial killer who in life murdered innocent people for pleasure, and after he became a Hollow he turned into something worse resuming his murderous ways.
When Shrieker Hollow got killed his soul was sent to Hell, because 1) in life he never repented of his sins and 2) the magnitude of his crimes when being alive as a human were too atrocious to grant any form of leniency to enter SS.
And, here again we enter another moral dilema, because in your previous argument you're presuming that all souls as either individual Hollows or Hollows merged into Menos are all good souls.
But, what happens if Menos- Gillian, Adjuchas, and Vasto Lorde, are composed of souls both morally good and morally evil that are mixed, fused, meshed, and intertwined all together into a single entity, and let alone that they continue to devour other souls that may be morally good or morally bad?
Don't the evil souls deserve punishment and judgement for whatever unspeakable crimes they commit when they were evil humans, too?
In menos, and even more so with the Arrancar, how can one tell if the fused entity is made up more of evil souls than good souls or viceversa?
Unless (as someone previously proposed) SS develops sort of a technology that allows them to disintegrate the Menos back into the hundreds to millions of souls they originally came to be, "killing" the Menos would as well pose another problem since Hell would also be affected as well by the excess oversaturation of evil souls, and it gets much worse because SS has absolutely no jurisdiction or inference whatsoever to monitor hell and let alone invading the Hell realm.