Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7232811-20130620224607/@comment-7232811-20130628225039

Thoris is sort of right Supah. Humanity DOES believe that it is their right, or possibly even duty, to rule the galaxy, purge all alien life, & ensure there is only the Imperium (blame the Adeptus Ministorum if you don't like them). Granted, Mankind does go about it in a considerably less pleasant way, for they do not give any quarter to whatever they come across. They believe in the virtue of intolerance. As it says in the main rulebook:

'Much of the Imperium, led by the religious fervour of the Adeptus Ministorum, (the b**tards!) believe in the extermination of all aliens, even if they are entirely peaceful species. When the masses are stirred to fear & fanaticism, they demand destruction over any kind of cooperation or coordination.'

& you say the Tau know best? Well, their way might seem nicer, but it does not make it right (except to them, for whom it is the only way, mind you, you were probably implying that all along). Think about it. Humanity is much, much older than the Tau, & they have had a lot of bad experience with aliens, so their virtue of 'kill all non-humans' is not one without a very good reason. & also be aware that one of the Emperor's main ideas at the beginning of the Great Crusade was to render all alien races incapable of posing a threat to mankind powerless. Not necessarilly kill them (though they would do if necessary), but merely cull their numbers a bit, remove anything of immense power they might have, & perhaps render them incapable of space travel. But it's pretty easy to see how that idea has been bastardised by the Ministorum into simply 'kill everything that stands in your way'.