whereas here we're killing them, but the difference is that in WoW, dead things come back--not just as undead. If dead things (other than ourselves) come back in the WoW universe, then why hasn't Mankrik gotten his wife back yet? Why isn't Cairne Bloodhoof alive again and leading the Tauren? And on...

The writing in the game requires the killing of creatures that either deserve it or is necessary for survival or to acquire something. Any gratuitous killing of things has always been up to the player. But the game creators did bother to be careful enough to not include children as targets, so why n...