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(reposting the reply to Ambassador from my wall) You make a lot of assumptions in that argument.

If Kanashi was the first monster to ever absorb a human soul, that meant that Kanashi didn't even know such a thing was possible, until it happened. So we can rule out premeditation on this.

And it was only when the humans learned that monsters had this ability, that they launched their attack on monsterkind, realizing this danger for the first time.

You assume that Kanashi stole a human soul. But we don't know the circumstances under which Kanashi aquired this soul, so we cannot prove that a theft actually happened.

If human souls always persist after death, any number of things could have killed the original human. An accident. An illness. A war between humans themselves. A natural disaster like getting struck by lightning. All of these things would blast a human's soul out of their body, making it drop as a collectable item.

Have you stopped to consider that Kanashi absorbing a human soul might have been an act of compassion?

Monsters and Humans can definietly become friends, we see that with Asriel and Chara. And if a monster saw that their human best friend had just died, might they try to allow their friend to live on, and remain part of their life, by absorbing their soul and giving that human a second, partial lease on life?

Both Asriel and Chara had some control over their shared body after Asriel absorbed Chara's soul. Chara's body was dead, but her soul lived on, and had a will of its own. The entire reason she wanted Asriels' body was as a tool to get revenge on her home village, thinking she could control him like a tool from the inside.

Having your soul absorbed isn't quite the same thing as death. It can grant an extended life.

Perhaps Kanashi, on seeing his or her fallen human friend dying, rushed over and gave them a huge hug as they passed.. only to then find their souls combinding the moment the human passed, a love miracle of sorts?

The humans might have asked for the soul of Kanashi's friend to be returned to them for proper burial. But that very soul might have wanted to stay with Kanashi and live on, and didn't want to be severed and buried according to human tradition.

So Kanashi refused to return the soul, out of compassion for their friend's wishes.

An act of compassion that the other humans misunderstood as soul-devouring greed.

So the humans attacked, seeing a threat that never actually existed. An act of aggression that turned the once peaceful monsters into enemies in truth.

It's always important to see both sides of a story, and look at it from more than one possible perspective, to see what possibilities might match, or might not.