Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
Not if enough of them refused. Evil only has that power because enough people agree to go along with it.
Yeah, in an ideal, utopian world that'd be the case. In such world, however, war wouldn't exist to begin with. You're creating a fantasy to justify your bloodlust.

I disagree. The people Rimuru wanted to resurrect were innocent. The people he wanted to sacrifice were racist murderers.

Again, it comes down to a trolley problem. Racist murderers' lives are not worth the same as innocents.
A soldier going out there to kill monsters is not a "racist murderer". Even if we assume that most of these soldiers were bad (it's entirely unrealistic to assume ALL of them were bad), that doesn't justify killing them without mercy, because, as shinta said, people can change. And Rimuru of all had the power to force a change. He chose not to because resurrecting his friends was more important to him. Which is understandable on a personal level. But it's not a moral choice.

Here's a thought experiment: Would the 100k soldiers still be alive, at least some, had Rimuru not had the option to resurrect his friends? The answer to that tells you everything about Rimuru's morals.