Thank you! I also think some fans take Ned's statement perhaps too literally. Ned's full statement is this:
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
Sansa might not "swing the sword", but she does the rest - she hears Littlefinger's last words and looks him in the eyes; she doesn't sentence him and then walk away. Given that she's a woman with zero experience in using swords or similar weapons, I think that's close enough to Ned's philosophy.
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I also think some fans take Ned's statement perhaps too literally. Ned's full statement is this:
“The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.”
Sansa might not "swing the sword", but she does the rest - she hears Littlefinger's last words and looks him in the eyes; she doesn't sentence him and then walk away. Given that she's a woman with zero experience in using swords or similar weapons, I think that's close enough to Ned's philosophy.