Killing a dead guy is useless, no matter in how many pieces you chop his body, there will not be much to benefit.
In order for those sick whims to be satisfied, the target needs to have at least a thread of life, a thread of hope, so even while they are being chopped they won't lose the will to live.
Is it sickening!?
Yes, for sure!
Does this mean that Eric wouldn't do it!?
Of course not!
While it may be sickening for him and for everyone else with a right mind, one had to understand that this wasn't the moral world of before, this was a different world, this was a jungle.
Survival of the fittest!
Even if that weren't the case though, Eric was extremely clear about his behaviour and relationships with other people.
He would repay kindness with kindness, pain with pain, and hatred with hatred. Of course, everything would be multiplied in return.
