Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30303676-20161023153004/@comment-30303676-20161023193624

Thanks for your reply! Spolier alert for Season 6 in what follows:

I just watched the section of Season 5, Episode 10 again: when Arya returns to the Temple of Black and White after killing Meryn. Jaquen tells her that Arya took a man's life when "it was not her's to take," which does imply that she did something wrong--though maybe this just means breaking the rules of the Faceless Men, rather than something morally wrong (which is how I have been interpreting it). Then he explains that what she did wrong was stealing (a life) from the Many Faced God, and "now a debt is repaid." I guess I have been thinking that what this means is that it is wrong to take a life as Arya did because it is up to the Many Faced God who lives and dies.

So if we just look at this scene, then I guess I am following it. But the Faceless Men are also paid assassins/murderers for hire. They will kill for a fee, as they did when they sent Arya (and later the Waif) to kill Lady Crane--Arya suggests it was Lady Crane's fellow actress that paid to get rid of her (in Season 6). This seems like they are jsut guns for hire, so to speak. But the scene in the Temple implies it is up to the God (Many Faced) to decide who lives and dies, not humans. So I still feel the motivations of the Faceless Men, as they are presented in the TV episodes so far, at least, are not coherent.