Further reinforcing my belief that these creatures are not actually sentient and need to be regarded as such.

There’s a desperate need to appear ‘informed’ now that I’m not sure existed before. Most people know less about what’s going on than ever now because we have less time to do that and most people are consumers now anyway. I almost never hear anybody making a proud political stance in public that has any idea what’s going on. Not in the sense I disagree with them but in the sense that they’re obviously repeating a headline they read on the can.

Their leaders most certainly are. Look at that mass shooting in Texas. The police were quite clearly told to make sure no one stopped the shooting.

NPCs aside, this matter should be upsetting to anyone who desires the government to hold a monopoly on violence. If a private citizen can stop a crime with violence (without the law turning them into a criminal), then it means the dream of the violence monopoly is further away, and that makes those people angry. In order to achieve that dream, they need to chip away legal self defense. The traditional vector is to corrode gun rights, but here we can see the desire to see this hero turned into a criminal (this would be the government softly declaring a monopoly on violence). In fact, because they believe that government violence monopolies are just, such a man is automatically a dangerous criminal to them.

I think that is how they see things.