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I just can't agree. Those are all issues (except for one, which I'll get to in a moment), but on every single one RTD was as bad or worse (I mean really, do you actually think RTD wasn't jerking it to Captain Jack?), and his stories made significantly less sense and were far more sloppily written. And if you think RTD's who was humanist, and not dependent on Doctor-worship, you really weren't paying attention during Last of the Time Lords.
And, uh, the Doctor has always been willing to kill. It's not his favorite thing to do, he'd prefer an ending where everybody lives, but especially when he's pissed off he's willing to do it. Hell, first two episodes of New Who (Rose and The End of the World) feature the Doctor murdering the Nestene Consciousness and then standing there and angrily watching Cassandra die gruesomely when saving her life would be as easy as splashing a glass of water on her (yes, she didn't actually die, but he didn't know that). Setting a bit of a tone there, I'd say. The real problem with killing in New Who is RTD's ridiculous hedging about it towards the end of his run (again, see The Last of the Time Lords).
And he took Demon's Run specifically in a way that would minimize loss of human life (Jenny says 'without a drop of blood spilled' which isn't strictly true, since there were some casualties between the soldiers and the Headless Monks, but none spilled by the Doctor's forces and if you take a whole military base with only like four or five casualties I'd say it's close enough) so between that and your frankly bizarre reading of The Girl Who Waited, I'm not sure how well you know what you're talking about.
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