User blog comment:Howling Darkness/Meruem: Good or Evil?/@comment-14902757-20140710074559/@comment-14902757-20140710155125

I woke up this morning realizing that Meruem did cannibalize Peggy and intentionally/unintentionally killed his mom. But mantises cannibalizes their mates, unborn sharks feed on their "siblings" eggs, etc.. So since Meruem must have acted on the premises of being an animal his acts are justified to an extent. Killing the Queen by forcing his way out is not something that can be qualified in the realms of humans as "evil" because it does not happen in reality. So we can't say if what Meruem did would have been the usual way of their King coming out of the Chimera ant's world. We can't say if that's normal. But looking at it in a biological perspective though, we can look at it as normal. Colt's decision to call the Royal Family all "devils" could be stemming from the morality passed on by his past human self coz where else could he get the term and concept of "devil". The Queen didn't consider what the King did as evil, so, although it looked bad, it's not evil for the ants because they don't have a clear and established concept of morality (not to mention they are all different species from one another). From human's point of view, since we treat them as "fauna" or some other kind of "species" we can't call them evil, we can only call them "bad."