Why forgive murderers?

different said:
The main message of the show which is "peaceful co-existence" between the races doesn't make sense to me. Just feels like everyone who decides to forgive murdering Oni's like they just did some sort of minor slip up. "They didn't mean to kill all those people, they're a good person deep down. I'm sure we can get along if we try."

Then everyone treats it like a bunch of people just didn't get massacred. It's kinda off putting. It makes the story feel very shallow.

Piromysl said:
Sally is a bratty, immature, narcisitic sociopath and an equivalent of a kid, who sends a letter to the Santa asking for "world peace". She doesn't care about anyone. Not Oni or their victims.
She does it for no other reason, than her own sick and twisted desire of self gratification.
What makes things worse, due to her privileged upbringings she never experienced any loss or hardship due to Onis, so it is very easy for her to ask for peace and coexistence.
But she doesn't have any moral high ground to stand on, unlike many others who did lost something and know, that Onis are evil by nature and need to be wiped out.
Hawthorn rightfully called her out on this bullshit in the final episode, to which she couldn't argue.

She is truly a despicable person, who pretends to be good and virtuous and just to think, there are a lot of people like her in real life is actually depressing.

MikeS90 said:
I really hate the way Sally thinks, but that bod though..

Znote said:
Should an entire nation be justifiably killed because they are ruled by evil rulers?
Should kids be killed if they were raised by evil parents?

What if we help evil rulers... Not be evil. If we teach parents to raise their kids properly.

I think thats were this is going, try to transform a community into something better, not just "an eye for an eye" and go the bloodbath path.

Which I find is refreshing, and this show makes this immensely difficult, which is surprisingly true even in real life.
...Especially if the protagonist isn't perfect either.

In this show, Oni's are raised to hate humans, some of them being strong and evil are capable of completely annihilating human societies, so humans are rightly scared of them.

Where do we draw the line on who to kill and who to save?
How do we make peace in such a distressed community?

I have no idea, and so I'm looking forward to the next seasons.