Lynch Mob

Should a soldier be held responsible for the decisions of his commanding officers? Is collective responsibility justice? To us, dear reader, these are rhetorical questions. Geralt, however, often found himself forced to answer them - and quickly. For example, once in Velen he happened across a group of villagers preparing to lynch a captured Nilfgaardian deserter. Not for the first time, the witcher had to decide which was the lesser evil...

The witcher made his decision. He defended the deserter and earned the peasants' ire. They attacked at once, and thus in order to save one man he had to kill many others.

The witcher made his decision. So that many could live, he agreed to allow the death of one. He knew that, if he defended the Nilfgaardian, he would be forced to slaughter the entire crowd of enraged peasants and so merely shook his head and walked on.