Originally Posted by AmateurFlix

Please keep in mind these people were of such a mentality that they did not stop after having this done to them ONCE, it needed to be REPEATED AGAIN at a second city to get the message through. They didn't care much about their own people except as a fighting resource and their culture, at least at that time, didn't place much value on human life, at least not on par with most other civilizations in the world. Nothing wrong at all with that decision.