I LOVE MOVING HOUSE unpacking is the best bit ! <| sep |> For sure , actual ethicists who have PhDs in philosophy argue about this , and its not a debate that ' s going to end anytime soon . But beyond that how you do something is important but I don ' t see the situation of the mutants inuniverse as much of a choice . They don ' t have an option of ' peacefully resolve this conflict ' and ' violently resolve this conflict '. Its ' survive this conflict violently ' or ' peacefully , and honorably become extinct '. Because , as Death of X has pointed out , other groups in these conflicts don ' t accept comprise as an option for their side . They want compliance . If the Terrigan mist is actively killing mutants , and the mutants change its chemical components to change that , the Inhumans will go to war . Bastion was dead set on mutant extinction . Legacy virus was created to destroy mutants . And so on . We can ' t really frame this as a debate between the two opposing sides of ' do the ends justify the means ' because it presupposes that there is multiply options on how to resolve the issue , which for most cases when its comes to mutants , there isn ' t . It ' s like saying Jewish resistance during World War 2 could have ended the Holocaust if only they tried to peacefully interact with the Nazis and show them that they weren ' t the scum of the earth . It wouldn ' t have mattered because within the Nazis ideology , Jewish people are scum of the earth . Extinction was the only way the Nazis where going to handle the ' Jewish Question '.