やつらも生き物だ、死して横たわる権利はあろう


The main character in this game enters a pact with a dragon which allows them
to communicate with each other and the MC to take control of the dragon. The
MC is depicted as bloodthirsty simply out for killing while the dragon as a
being standing above everyone else, mocking humans especially for being a
petty species.

Pretty early on in the game, when riding the dragon, you have to shoot down
enemies out of the sky. After killing a certain amount, the dragon goes:

> もうやめておけ！やつらも生き物だ、死して横たわる権利はあろう。

I'm not really sure what he's trying to say here. The dragon himself seems to
switch between a "let them live" and "everyone must die" mentality pretty
often throughout the game and it's kinda hard to pinpoint what exactly he
wants from you at times. I assume here he's mad at the MC for mindlessly
killing enemies but I'm not really sure what exactly he's trying to get at
here.

If 死して横たわる means "to lie dead" (which I guess it does), how does 権利 come into
play here? They have a right to lie dead? Doesn't make much sense to me.




It's a manga/anime expression (one can tell because it's extravagant). I think
in this case, the speaker is saying even the baddies are living things, so
they should be allowed to die and lie down (or lie down after they die) -
rather than say converted into an undead, be displayed on a pike or something.

It's hard to tell what was exactly meant because it's supposed to sound
mysterious.

