Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-3125844-20150123235427/@comment-64.231.120.181-20150212040833

Syscrash53 wrote: It's perception. Just like Monroe and his buddy use to go hunting. The council finds nothing wrong with that because that is what they do. If Nick where to walk up an cut the head off a wesen the council would not say anything because that is what they do. Just like the council sends out the bounty hunter to kill wesen law violators. No trial, no pleading your case, instant execution. That why Rosalee did not want Nick to get involved. From the councils point of view this is all legal and expected. Just like when Sean and Nick made Acker think Nick was going to kill his sister. What did Sean say that is what Grimms do. Every wesen Nick meets they are suprised he doesn't just kill them. That is what they expect him to do and are really suprised when he doesn't. When the council has a problem, is when wesen use their abilities on humans. For just showing a human the woge you will lose your head. So what Adalind did to Hank that would be major. What see tried to do to Marie that is just business. That is the way wesen live. That is why even though Monroe was there to protect Marie she still told him to take his best shot. Take Kelly when it came to the Truck owner she was insulted that Nick thought she had killed him. But when it came to Chatherine, when Nick remined Kelly she killed her. Kelly's response was "Oh yea" like it was no big deal. But the real telling that death is a natural part of their life. Was when Kelly was question Sean about trying to kill Marie. He responded she's a Grimm end of conversation. Then when Kelly and Sean where standing in Monroes kittchen they made it clear any other time one of them would have been dead. No reason other then Kelly's a Grimm and Sean is a zauberbiest. You see how Kelly looks at Monroe if not for Nick he would be dead at Kelly's hands.

It seems the wesen are all about eye for and eye. You do something to a wesen you have their familly to deal with. You don't call the cops or a Grimm, or the council. That is why Blutbad have been killing bauerswine for fun for years.

The council is not apathetic towards the Blutbad-Baurschwein feud because it is "what they do"; they are apathetic because it falls outside their area of concern. Remember, the council is solely concerned with keeping Wesen a secret from human society and maintaining their capacity to continue doing so. As wesen being killed by other wesen or Grimms falls outside that concern, they do not bother to punish it. If they do punish wesen killing humans more harshly, it is only because of the potential for exposure being there (woging to surprise a human is a popular tactic).

Bottom line; do not take council inaction as proof that this sort of violence is permitted. It is simply the case that it falls outside their jurisdiction, similar to how a detective in St Louis will not investigate a murder in New York.

P.S. I am saying this because it is going to come up; I do not think that monroe hunted sentients. In episode 3x03, monroe states that he and Ned "hunted when we were kids, but never Baurschwein! Only the legal stuff".

Humans are established to be illeagal to kill and I have a hard time beliving any wesen law that would afford differing "open season" status on different Wesen (and if there is, why would Baurschwein not be legal? It is not as if the Baurschwein have any power physically or politically. They would probably be free game, alongside Mauzheartz and Selenguter). Given these constraints, I do not see monroe having ever killed a person before meeting Nick (I do not see the Novels or comics as proper canon, given the inconsistencies in relation to the show. Only that which occurs on the television is canon). What was he hunting back then? My guess is that he was killing people's pets, cattle, horses, Etc. You know, stuff that would not be strictly "illeagal" under any wesen Law I know of. I am also not inclined to think that Monroe was lying because his words had an "angry richeousness" behind them that would be impossible if he was not being sincere.

Of course it has been heavily hinted that Monroe has had a violent past in earlier seasons, but given the restrictions above, along with little to no allusions to said past in recent seasons, I am going to suggest that said past has been unofficially retconned (slightly) in light of his heightened popularity amoung fans.