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I think those two moral decisions fairly early on where you can execute or not execute the thief and the other guy later on give you divine shards or something to spend, so there's a bonus to not sparing them to recruit later (I assume). Otherwise, I'm not sure if there's any upside to ever not taking someone

Oh god I gave Travis the venom dagger which gives him new AP skill Poison Slash. It poisons the enemy which does a lot of damage which is sick, but I didn't realize how crucial Passive Steal was - he steals PP from enemies preventing them from doing stuff with it, but more importantly gives him more PP to evade with. His ability to survive goes down a ton without this.