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Originally Posted by Anaximander  It might help this discussion if we first define humanity. Rather than use a dictionary definition, let's use the one offered by the game itself. Take directly from the in-game tip about humanity:
Humanity is a moral code. Now consider your treatment of Cooper. First, there's the matter of extortion. You exploit his ignorance of vampirism to rob him of nearly five hundred dollars. Then, you send him on a fool's errand to attempt to assassinate one of the following: A Camarilla prince, an Brujah Anarch leader, or the US President. Cooper may be a vampire himself, but he is a neonate and a Thin Blood on top of that. His chance of surviving any of those three encounters is miniscule at best.
There is nothing moral about the way you deal with this poor idiot. You rip him off and send him to almost certain death. The humanity loss is warranted, in my opinion. |
That's all true, yes, but you don't actually kill him. Other vampires hunt the thin bloods for sport, don't they? At the beginning, Jack tells you that breaking any number of laws will be the normal order of the night before the night's out, and that humanity loss comes from killing innocent humans. He may be an innocent, but he's not human, and you don't kill him. No harm, no foul. There is nothing in the vampire code of humanity that obliges you to protect the militantly stupid from themselves, or that prevents you from taking advantage of them. Heck, ordinary real-life people do that to each other all the time. It's called 'marketing'.