Talk:Marty Mikalski/@comment-5060540-20121207113023/@comment-67.220.29.254-20121223152335

The point is that if the whole world is only saved by people becoming so incredibly cruel as to sacrifice people (and doing so in ways that maximize their suffering) year after year for centuries, then the world might not be worth saving.

In the DVD commentary, Goddard and Whedon said that also it was important that both sides were presented as being right in their own way; the adults who are willing to be monsters to save the world, and the young ones who are unwilling to accept a world with such a cost.