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Katniss was mentally unstable, and only went with also-mentally-unstable Peeta because Gale was no longer an option. Then killed Coin when Katniss realized Coin was just another Snow, nevermind the fact that Katniss supported Coin's plan to reopen the Hunger Games. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

28-Jun-2017 12:31:43 - Last edited on 28-Jun-2017 12:34:04 by NotFishing

Westenev

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NotFishing said :
Katniss was mentally unstable, and only went with also-mentally-unstable Peeta because Gale was no longer an option. Then killed Coin when Katniss realized Coin was just another Snow, nevermind the fact that Katniss supported Coin's plan to reopen the Hunger Games.

If I remember correctly, Katniss was pressured into that decision to give Coin more clout as an ally of the mockingjay?

Coin will always be infinitely worse than Snow in my books – at the very least, Snow had a granddaughter he seemed to genuinely want to protect... and he had a code never to break a promise. Coin always gave the impression that if the Capital didn't have countermeasures, she would simply nuke the place and be done with it - humanity be damned.

That said, our narrator may or may not be unreliable.
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28-Jun-2017 12:52:20 - Last edited on 28-Jun-2017 12:56:55 by Westenev

NotFishing

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But Snow razed District 12 to the ground.

I think the implication was that Coin and Snow were basically the same.

But I don'f think Katniss was acting rationally. I think she only cared about revenge. She supported the new Hunger Games for revenge, and killed Coin out of revenge without thinking of the consequences that would come after. At least, that's my interpretation. Throughout the book she was more driven by emotion than anything.

See: her constant attempts to run off and go sulk in closets. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

28-Jun-2017 13:00:46

Westenev

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District 12 was stated to be the least populated district, and was something of a ghetto in the first place. If District 12 disapeared, it's destruction wouldn't endanger the fate of humanity - and if it could help quell the rebellion by a show of force, then more lives would be saved than lost in the ensuing rebellion.

Mathmatically, I think it was the correct decision. With the gift of hindsight however, if Snow hadn't listened to his corrupt corporate exectutives and let Katniss be a good show and nothing more, I feel the entire third book just wouldn't have rolled in Coin's favour.
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28-Jun-2017 13:16:52

NotFishing

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Westenev said :
District 12 was stated to be the least populated district, and was something of a ghetto in the first place. If District 12 disapeared, it's destruction wouldn't endanger the fate of humanity - and if it could help quell the rebellion by a show of force, then more lives would be saved than lost in the ensuing rebellion.

Mathmatically, I think it was the correct decision. With the gift of hindsight however, if Snow hadn't listened to his corrupt corporate exectutives and let Katniss be a good show and nothing more, I feel the entire third book just wouldn't have rolled in Coin's favour.

Thing is, it wasn't the correct decision. It didn't work, and they couldn't make a habit of destroying all the Districts, which the Capital ultimately depends on for supplies. District 12 produced most of the coal. And District 13's thing had been uranium if I remember correctly, so what was the Capital going to do about power? Population-wise District 12 may have been smaller, but destroying a city is destroying a city. If Snow had already been willing to go that far, I'm sure he could just as easily nuke a larger District.

Let's not forget all of Snow's poisonings.

Besides, the Districts rebelling did NOT endanger humanity. The Capital's oppression did, because they kept the majority of humanity firmly under their boot which ultimately drove them to rise up.

Instead of using all those world and creature building tools on an annual child murdering competition, they could be using it to improve the conditions and lives in the Districts, earning their trust and loyalty that way and establishing a benevolent dictatorship. They'd still have the military might to lay down a smackdown if any of the Districts did rebel for some stupid reason, but the best way to prevent a rebellion is to give them no reason to rebel. A government that needlessly mistreats the majority of its citizens is incompetent. Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.

28-Jun-2017 22:00:43 - Last edited on 28-Jun-2017 22:17:30 by NotFishing

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