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Aight, I'm in it.
So, ignoring any non Batman issues as to whether or not it would be the same or equivalent to killing to us, let's look at Batman.
Specifically to his no killing rule.
In general he doesn't refuse to kill because a criminal/villain dying isn't a good thing, or that he doesn't think death is a useful ending for a truly dangerous individual.
It's a personal line he won't cross. There's been endless debate about why that's his line when he certainly isn't stopped by causing immense pain, crippling injuries, disfigurement, or other violent acts. And that's always fun to debate!
But it is his line. Him directly ending someone else's life is where he says nope. And there is a difference between killing someone and letting them die. There's an even bigger difference if you let them die as the result of their own actions vs if you make the situation occur.
Ra's al Ghul, in that specific story, did cause himself to be in that situation. Batman certainly contributed to it leading to that exact moment, that exact outcome, but he wasn't causative (for sure not in his mind, even if we disagree with that assessment). So being able to walk away would be internally consistent within that film universe. Wouldn't be with other versions of the Batman, but that series was less civilized in many ways than even some of the comic iterations where he went dark.
There are other versions of Batman that would have tried to save Ra's' life.
It can be really difficult to separate out all the versions of Batman. The movies don't all have continuity, but they seem to. But they definitely aren't the same Batman as the animated movies, or the animated series, or the comics (hell, you have to break comics down into eras, and even then there's a lack of consistency), and definitely not the 60s tv show.
But there aren't many characters that have as fractured a history in multiple media. Superman? You can mostly stitch the movies together into two, maybe three chunks and they don't conflict inside those chunks. Spider-Man has had a lot of iterations, but is pretty damn consistent across them in terms of holding to his core "spirit". Even James Bond only comes close to the disjointed portrayal Batman has had.
I'd even argue that Dr Who is less disjointed than Batman, and he essentially becomes a new person.
Anyway, I found that scene to fit that Batman very well