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I genuinely don't know why people are confused about the Demons in frieren. They are fundamentally incompatible with humanity. There is no Grey zone. They are monsters, not your happy friendly fantasy where some monsters are good monster monsters. The only connections they are capable of understanding is strength. The only language they truly understand is power. They learned the human tongue not to communicate but to manipulate. The anime and the Manga make it exceptionally clear, the Demons in Frieren are just monsters. There is no redemption. Just like how you can't genocide a lion, or a mosquito you cannot genocide the demons in frieren.
"...makes it exceptionally clear" yeah... No. The anime and manga time and time show demons valuing other things than "power" all the time.
The mere fact that they have free will makes it completely unacceptable to do a genocide. A genocide, as Frieren wants it, is indiscriminate, meaning that if there are good demons, they too will be executed.
I hear you, but also if my species is your only food source and cannot be replaced by any of the available means of the time I'm not sure what other options remain
Out of curiosity, when did they show that? Every interaction with demons I remember from it they are shown to be manipulating people at best.
The "Diplomatic Envoys" were literally trying to figure out the town's barrier so their master could come in and slaughter them.
The "little girl" in the flashback with Himmel outright says that she called out for her "Mommy" despite demons literally abandoning their young once they're born because "that word stops humans" and nothing more.
Like yeah it's inherently difficult writing something that looks human as actually an irredeemable monster that the only solution is destruction because dehumanizing vulnerable groups is pretty much always the first step in real life genocides. But I don't recall any instances of demons in Frieren actually showing "humanity" for any other reason than to manipulate and kill humans.
They are shown valuing things other than power in the manga (later in the story than the anime currently) but other demons think they're weirdos and they still are fundamentally wanting to arbitrarily kill humans.