Which villainous race(s) are next on the chopping block?

[JoeJ]

Besides, "objectively evil" isn't as simple as you imagine. Do you know why Bandit #12 (call him Benjamin) is a bandit? Do you know what his alternatives were and what his life was like and how he spends it now? What has Benjamin, specifically, done that makes him worthy to die? Is armed robbery worth the death penalty even if Benjamin has never killed anyone because they have always surrendered? People can be bad, even evil, without being worthless beyond redemption.

But on the gripping hand, if I take Benjamin prisoner and turn him over to the authorities, he'll be hanged because, in a medieval society, that's what happens to bandits who are caught. Probably in public, in front of a cheering crowd. So I'm not really sparing his life, I'm just giving him a few more days before he dies.