Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-9026161-20130719005722/@comment-203.134.114.238-20131013085737

Saberslash127 wrote:

lol cmon Grunt  :), your acting like you never heard of an exterminatus before.......plus ive read through the 8th edition tau book and haven't read anything about any rights violation, or full-scale re-education programs....i only heard those thing in the dark crusade ending but that wasn't canon soo..... Exterminatus is a funny thing, because although the initial image might sound bad, there is an actual reason why Exterminatus is performed. The most common reason is when a world is deemed so corrupted, that it is considered unsaveable or unsalvagable to the point where the destruction of an entire planet is needed, these are often a last-resort weapon and the Imperium often look down upon such acts. Examples of such acts includes mass Chaos worshipping, Necron tomb-worlds or a Tyranid incursion that has OMNOMNOM'ed way too much to be needed. Exterminatus is a necessary-evil and the Imperium knows this, you seem to be Naive on the concept on what makes the Imperium neither good nor evil.

[Darth Grunt]