User blog comment:Jet Becker/Is anybody else off McCoy?/@comment-4136718-20120111203012/@comment-4750091-20120111232031

that's another thing that grinds me-- Scott doesn't treat students as expendables. To him every mutant life is sacred. That's why he's so determined to preserve their lives through his "questionable" methods... think about the last students to die or suffer a serious injury on Utopia. Onyxx and Hellion are the ones that come to mind. Onyxx was looking to be killed off by Marvel anyway and his death was the result of an unprovoked attack by a madwoman (which X-Force -- under Scott's orders -- killed), not because Scott ordered him to go out and attack someone- but because he was defending himself, his friends and his home. Same with Helion. Impending doom. faced with death anyway. Awesome power and ability to make a difference. Highly trained. Tragic loss but again- it's not Scott's fault they were trapped and backed into a corner in the first place. And Beast blaming Scott for the death of Kurt during Second Coming? Low blow... even if he didn't buy the whole "she's the messiah thing"- at the very least Scott's efforts to save Hope from Bastions forces can be seen as trying to protect an innocent mutant from harm... isn't that what the X-men are all about? Isn't that what Beast's idealism is centred around. having the luxury of not killing is grand and all- and it's not like they do it willy-nilly- just to the people who thoroughly deserve it, who can't be reasoned with and often as a last resort.