I see what you're saying regarding my reading of the Kill/No kill change. I'm still slightly confused by the stat and its description.
I see it more like a twisted sense of morality. MC don't become amoral, he just have a morality which isn't the same as common peoples.
As demonstration, take the case of the cam/audio spying. MC have two options :
- The cam, which will probably let him see the girls naked ;
- The micro, which will probably let him hear some secrets of the family.
They both are wrong for any normal guy, you don't spy on other people. But here there's one which is so so so terribly wrong for someone in the mafia... You don't spy on other secrets ! At least not when they are from your own family.
So, what have the higher morality value for the normal guys we are, you and me, have the lower morality value for someone in the mafia. It's better to see the girls naked (or even masturbate) than to hear them talking about family secrets.
Same, as I see it, for the kill/no kill. For me, it's not the fact that you spare his life which is moral, but the fact that you didn't killed him in front of the young miss Gracie. Cordia is strict on this, her princess don't have to join the family business, she's too pure for this and must stay as pure as possible. Hey ! she even asked that they completely clean the rooms of any blood stain before they release the girls ; and I'm sure that it's not just
@HopesGaming being lazy and not wanting to transform the room into a bloody mess
The reaction of (what's his name again ? The Serpent with the flail) tend to confirm me in my reading. He understand that Luna had no choice, but he feel really concerned by the fact that she had to kill someone in front of her sister. There's something wrong in this, something that should have been avoided. In a way he must even live it as a failure ; he came to late to protect Gracie, not from the aggressors, but from the violence.
So yes, a twisted sense of morality. When you're in the mafia, what is part of a high morality can be seen as a low morality by a normal guy.