New thinking proposes that the Big G, later Saint G, was a really good, even Christian kind of a guy, the kind of guy you’d want to have on your side. So, unnecessary slaughter of any creature was against his principles, no matter how justified that seemed to be to the community around him.
Having a mind of his own and a true sense of right or wrong he not only saved the town, the girl and the planet, but he would go out of his way to save the dragon, too.
Of course he would.
That’s what good guys do.
thumbs, beasts and thieves 