Maridian lowered his hand, some of the cheerfulness vanishing from his voice. "So would it be preferable to wage a war of extermination on a people who were involuntarily transformed into the undead as a result of a plague intended to subjugate them into a loyal army for the Lich King? Is that fair, just, or righteous? Should we abandon them, and thus encourage them to walk a dark path they're already tempted down, thus creating another enemy on our flanks when we're already neck-deep in them? Should we judge others by what they are, instead of who?"