Sousou no Frieren Episode 10 Discussion

"demons are individualists" is there something more to flamme said? Like a real world commentary or another layer of meaning? I'm sure it has its own applications in its story, but is there a comparison to be had between real-world individualists and real world 'humans' who value social status and money? I wonder if there's a lesson to be learned from 'too much' individualism or 'too much in the wrong way (arrogant/pride) individualism.'
When a person becomes too individualist and flaunts too much their own merit, do they lose the sight of something?

Damn... It can be hard not to feel a tiny bit of empathy towards demons, despite them being inherently bad (in a sense, they kill other races indiscriminately). Maybe it's because it's hard to believe that such creatures can exist. Creatures who fear death just like humans and animals, are sentient but can't EVER be reasoned with... That's why you need someone as "coldhearted" as Frieren to deal with them. She won't hesitate to kill.

Maybe the reason why humans (me included) would hesitate is because we basically become pro-genocide if we share Frieren's POV. Like, kill every last demon since every last one of them, child or adult, are monsters. It feels wrong to be pro-genocide, like some Nazi. It can be hard to accept this, even though in this case that's indeed the only solution...

@LS_11

Frieren is not a genius. Mana increases with years of training so the older the mage, the greater the mana. Frieren got that powerful because she trained for 1000 years. Aura only trained for around 500 years so her mana could never compare.

But this is only about mana. There's way more to the magic system in this series than mana. And it's not impossible for a mage with less mana than Frieren to beat her.

@Sigmar-Unberogen don't think I could feel any empathy for a creature who's sole existence is to kill and eat me. Got to remember that demons in this world are apex predators who evolved to look and sound like humans in order to kill them more easily.

The biggest flex.

One interesting thing to me is how the demon king ordered all elves to be wiped out. I'm guessing the idea is that since demons live a long life and mana is proportional to the years spent training, they think humans die of old age long before they could become a threat to demons. But elves live long enough to rival them in terms of mana. This is also part of why Flamme figured that Frieren's longevity will be the key to defeating the demon king.

Also, Lügner classified Frieren as a "genius" because it seemed to him that Frieren hasn't spent many years training magic due to the amount of mana she appeared to have. So logically, if you can be extremely powerful after just a little bit of training, that may make her seem like a "talented genius", when truly it was about the amount of time she spent training her magic.