User blog comment:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 333 - In Which Ul, I Think There Is Some Sort Of Therapy For That Facial Tick (Man and Man, Dragon and Dragon, Man and Dragon)/@comment-1759748-20130531203636

So, the only reason we can justify saving Rouge is the whole "timelines are merging" thing. Why not kill him, and pervent the entire mess? By killing him now, he won't have a chance to learn how to control dragons. Without that magic, odds are Natsu and the other slayers (God, smite me for calling the slayers useful -cept Wendy, she's just adorable as can be- but I must.) can reason with with them.

For those who think one life is worth more than the many, I'm sorry, but we have confirmation that Rouge's future self is the cause of all this, and well, you'd have to be downright crazy to think he F. Rouge can survive dying before he even existed. It's a sure-fire victory. Oh wait, Shonen series, where heroes almost never die.

Sun Tzu, the greatest general in history (36 stratagems anybody?) would probably be more than willing to have done the same.