To be fair, from what he knew, they were responsible for what had happened to his knights, and would have continued to spread chaos everywhere if left alone. Besides, is it truly his responsability that the beasts corrupted and were left without support, when he himself was struggling to teach weaker cookies solidarity and protect them by himself ? Did he really turn his back on them, when he never agreed with their actions or beliefs ?
Like, it was'nt a perfect solution, but there was'nt anything better he could've done, I think. Altough I think it's an interesting debate for sure ; What would be better :
Should he seal the beasts, and stop them from commiting any harm to the rest of the world, even though it will worsen their mental health and thus make them more unstable, sad and dangerous, knowing they might one day be freed ?
Or should he have tried to help and reason with them, a solution that would last much longer, but at the cost of his own mental health and many lives ruined, with a very low chance that he would succeed with how disasterous his anger became ?
Either way, like often, what makes this so intersting is that none is truly perfect. No matter the outcome, Silent Salt, torn up in rage and grief, and the other beasts in despair and sadness, would never end up truly well, as innocent lives, wether theirs or not, wether by their doing or not, would continuously be destroyed. They all need help from someone who, preferably, is ready to be patient and kind to them, and Silent Salt is with the beasts, including himself, neither one nor the other. Had he decided to act in solidarity with the others, he could not have saved them, and comdamned cookiekind to much suffering, for he was too far gone to be capable of gentleness towards them anymore.
To me at least, his corruption was the moment he decided to give up on himself. He could not have acted diferently during the great barren massacre, not with the sting of betrayal and his comrade's bodies lying all around him. When he deemed himself undeserving to keep fighting for the good of cookiekind, when in the face of his own mistakes he wished simply to die instead of living, when he chose to give up on all he once was to embrace the abyss forevermore, is when he corrupted to me. Him sealing away the beasts is only a byproduct of this mindset.
Or maybe I'm reaching too far idk
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