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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

We've seen the point of view of demons. They're not human, or human analogues, in any way, shape, or form.

They just look and act like humans, as a form of predatory camouflage.

They're a perfect example of blue and orange morality (warning, TV Tropes link, abandon all hope ye who enters here).

We've seen (in the manga) a demon spend centuries doing his best to learn how to experience empathy, sympathy, or guilt, so he and other demons can become something that can coexist with humans without one or both of them inevitably ending up extinct.

He failed.

There's no possible long term future in Frieren's world where both humans and demons exist, unless demons change so fundamentally that they stop being demons (which would be a paradox of sorts, as real demons would then be extinct).

Demons have one choice: remain true to their nature and eat or exterminate all humans, or cease to be.

Humans have one choice: let themselves be exterminated, or exterminate all demons.

No side is committing genocide, they're just fighting for their own survival, in a world that gives them no other option.