Piestar:
Piestar isn't a ranger actually. LOL. There is a difference between facing them in combat, and slaughtering them when helpless I guess. When we find a room full of baby kobolds, and the party wants to bathe in their blood, I wont be joining in.
?? The acts you're talking about are
not equivalent -- a clean death to an adult enemy
isn't the same as infanticide, or removing an eye in an act of sadism.
There can be a good outcome from a clean death to an adult enemy -- which is that they won't be committing evil acts tomorrow.
When you're talking about "them," you realize this is an enemy that will reciprocate your mercy by murdering a ten year old girl they find wandering the woods next week? And, whose responsibility is it, then, when that happens? Was that kobold's life a good bargain for that of the child?