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decepticonsensual:

And that last post made me suddenly think:

Arms dealing in TFA is often held up as a special kind of evil.  Isaac Sumdac flat-out refuses to have his firm manufacture weapons; the fact that Porter C. Powell wants to do so helps cement his status as the villain.  The Autobots themselves also seem to take this view.  In “S.U.V. – Society of Ultimate Villainy”, they go for Swindle with a vengeance, despite the fact that they’ve never even met him before, just on the grounds that he’s an arms dealer who’s willing to do business with Megatron.  And it clearly isn’t just a case of, “We have to prevent Megatron from getting his hands on this weapon” – it comes across as personal, bordering on vicious.  Hell, at the end of the episode, it’s heavily implied that the ‘Bots are going to let the police rip Swindle apart while he’s alive and conscious.  Most of the Autobots themselves seem to prefer modified construction or other civilian equipment to straight-up weaponry, almost as if it’s a point of pride.

And this was my thought:  how much of this prejudice against weapons is actually an expression of their attitudes towards the Decepticons, who are living weapons?