Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30390828-20161120192150/@comment-13682699-20161203015141

Genocide which is done by the humans has no justification in terms of morality. I admit it.

This is not an excuse. The attacks do not kill immediately. There is a time to notice that Frisk felt sick. In addition, to beg for mercy, or be humiliated in front of the monsters who try to cut you to pieces ... And you're a child... It is extremely unpleasant. Finally, it does not work for Undyne and Asgore.

This justification can be used even for killing monsters in Genocide Route. Not only monsters have their own interests. Chara, too, had their own interests. Morality is different. Other people's crimes do not justify your own crimes. But even mathematics, which is devoid of morality, confronts Asgore:

" You pathetic whelp. If you really wanted to free our kind... You could have gone through the barrier after you got ONE SOUL..." - Toriel

By the time of the meeting with Frisk, Asgore became a serial killer. Evil Boss Monster.

If someone doesn't know better, that's probably the only excuse that can be given, which is the case when it came to most monsters and Frisk.

You cannot justify the genocide route no matter how you try to slice it.

Toriel's words were just a simple and faulty plan that she came up with on the spot to jab at Asgore for being a coward and not following through with his word (something that Toriel is also at fault for.) It has been explained by both Asriel and Gerson that such a plan would have ended in catastrophic failure because then the Humans would just wipe monsters out for good.

Painting Asgore as pure evil is pretty much impossible because of the specific and tragic circumstances he was given and well-meaning intentions during such a stressful time. Most people would have done worse in his place, such as ACTUALLY going out and trying to actively eradicate the human race with that plan Toriel mentioned.