Originally Posted by
Zulkhan
It's like the Crusaders in Jerusalem that commited a scary genocide of men, women and children just because they belived that God wanted that, those guys were just awful unbelivers and needed to be wiped out of existance (and they felt even more justified since the Pope granted them "free acess" to the heaven and eternal atone of any sign).
The Alliance felt justified to act almost like that because sincerely belived that the orcs were horrible creatures of darkness. Now, only the most extremists of Alliance warmongers (and don't worry, there are warmongers in the Alliance) can try to act like that, but for the majority by now is unable to ignore the fact the things are changed by the times of WC2.
If the whole of the Alliance would convince themselves, with all their efforts of self-delusion, to be the saints fighting the bad evil, they would be a bunch of moronic fanatics like the Scarlet Crusade. And I have to admit, as a Horde player I would absurdly enjoy to brutally and mercilessly butcher these kind of individuals. But the modern Alliance becoming something like that? Oh, hardly.