This is my point of view concerning the whole "Are the Sailor Senshi 
Unfeeling about if the Yoma are living or not" thread.
(Don't worry Tybalt, there will be a few things that will make niffty 
fic ideas.)

1) The Senshi don't think about the consiquences of their battles.
Maybe... but then what about other Anime series?  Ex. How come no one 
has ever taken into account that Ryoga has leveled a LOT of buildings 
with his Baksaitenketsu technique?  How come no one has ever written 
a fic where Ryoga is on his merry way and makes a family homeless or 
even kills someone with the collapsing rubble?  If they picked on 
other series as much as the did on SM about things like this, I could 
let it slide.

2) The Senshi attack first.
Wrong, wrong, WRONG!  The Senshi attack a Yoma when its draining 
energy from humans.  So, even if the Yoma are living things, it comes 
down to a matter of destroying one life form, instead of letting it 
live and kill others by its very presence alone.

3)(Most important of all) IT'S ONLY A TV SHOW!!!
Sailor Moon was never meant to be a highly philisophical show about 
the right and wrong of killing monsters.  It was just something to 
sit back, relax and enjoy... and I do.

Before you label me a hypocrite, let me reitterate that the above is 
just meant to show my point of view and not start a whole 
philisophical argument.

The Flashman
(Getting down from the soap box)

May The Spirit Preserve You!