I do that too. I have 2 todlers at home.
I dont have the heart to kill the mother and its babies. Not even in a game.
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Well if you don’t want to kill baby animals you can always go to frostfire ridge and kill orc children. unless they changed it so they are no longer killable like most children ingame
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Im not sure killing children would make me feel any better.
Although to be honest, when I looked at my 2005 toon I have like 10M humanoid kills or some ridiculous number like that.
With what I have done… technically speaking I should be charged by the Geneva Convention for single handedly causing War Crimes… Its up there with Holocaust atrocities… except I did all that myself… Nasty stuff…
Not killing children dosent exonerate me from that… 
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Majority is too closeminded to even try to understand what the post about.
During the Superbloom event we were forced to kill hundreds of local animals to help the tree to grow. And it’s just bad narrative. Poorly designed. Why not to fight real enemies of the tree during all the event?
If game allowing you to play as protector of the nature (druid) and forcing you to kill animals all the time – it’s bad narrative too.
That’s the point. But make LOL out of this, because thinking hurts.
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more boars pliz
To be fair, I don’t think the Dragonflight centaur are the best example of this. They seem to be all about population control/hunting to use the entire animal, and specifically ask the player not to kill young animals.
In response to OP, I do think it would be refreshing if Blizzard leaned into having multiple ways to finish quests, or even to have alternate versions/the option to skip certain quests that you could rp as your character being opposed to.
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I don’t think this would work well for what he wants, not killing innocent creatures. When a ritual requires a raptor heart for example it would be weird if you are allowed to turn a bunch of soy instead
Well it was in the emerald dream, wich is quite different than the real world.
You need to kill a tree for the mining pick handle and the smelting of ore and smithing techniques do so much damage to the environment.
Nothing in wow stops you killing at least one innocent living thing.
Its just so depressing I’m going out to slap a chicken.
But there is no any good logical reason to kill local dwellers (animals of Emerald Dream) if you want to protect the tree. It’s just feels pointless.
And I am talking about bad quest design now. Not some vegan-nonsense.
Do not forget all the animals wich get displaced when you start digging for ores in a mine. all those poor animals get displaced by all the noice and people going there, oh dear.
population control isnt necessary in the wild. the animals and the planet do it themselves. its part of the circle of life.
it is a problem with domesticated animals and animals hunted by humans.
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It certainly is needed, human presence already influenced nature alot. Just think how little wolves we have in europe. Because we hunted them down in the past. Because of that deer and boar populations need to be thinned out sometimes because there is no natural predator around.
Overgrazing can cause alot of problems for nature, and so can invasive species.
Lol… It is a video game. Not real life. You are basically tired of pixels. It is like feeling bad you are imagining killing an innocent cockroach.
Maybe it is time for you to unsub?
Are you trolling???
Every day I lose a little bit more of my faith in humanity.
how do you know they’re innocent? there was a time when people thought jimmy saville was innocent, dont forget. it was only after he died did the truth come out.
I’m against violence entirely. Give us an alternative to killing anything and everything please.
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I mean, if a quest givers tell me to “thin the herd” to prevent overpopulation and starvation for the existing animals around, I see no issue at all with doing so.
That’s maybe your expectations and ideals conflicting with the gameplay.
Same like someone hating guns will hate every form of shooter because “it reminds me of guns and violence”.
As a druid, i have no problems culling animals where necessary. Especially not in cat form.
To quote the Kul Tiran Thornweaver leader Ulfir (a druid):
"This land is generous, and strong, and its heart thrums beneath us! The balance… does not move… easily…
But where there is death, there is also life! An inescapable cycle, as sure as the sea is vast! No creature can thwart it for long."
We gotta keep the cycle of life and death moving, burn some trees every now and again (preferrably not Amirdrassil though thank you 
), and keep up the culling of animals, to keep the Balance of nature. And overall in WoW, there’s not that many animals, so the ones we can see as players (the non critter and esp hostile animals) are there to be removed, especially in a quest. Could there be alternative ways to finish quests?
Yeah, it’d be cool, but if druids and paladins get those, everyone class has to get their own in other ways, and there are so many animal kill quests it’s unreasonable to ask to change all of them now or in the future. You gotta embrace the feral side of druids for these quests.
I mean, just keep in mind that everytime you heal someone as a druid you take life from living creatures. That life force of nature doesn’t just come out of thin air lorewise. So, whether or not you save some animals during a quest doesn’t really matter, as a druid you already are always giving life from death and vice versa.
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