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I think searching for where the Hive is actively lying isn't nearly as interesting as searching for where the Hive omits the truth. I think we as an audience are meant to accept the 'rules' as outlined so far, that being that the Hive genuienly does not want to kill and makes its decisions based around this limiting factor of their behavior.
Basically, I think the Hive is telling the truth when they imply all the deaths during the initial joining really were from falls, crashes or other accidents that occur when people suddenly drop into a seizure.
If the Hive can commit mass murder it makes their dynamic with the immune way less interesting, because it feels like killing Carol and everyone else is way less hassle.
They arent committing mass murder by stabbing people. They are disregarding the risks involved in the spread of the virus. Just as they are disregarding the incidental damage of redirecting all human production to beaming a message into space and keeping a handful of "survivors" content, or the animals who die from not being fed, etc.
They don't want anyone dead. They don't want to kill people. They just did so as a direct result of something else (The propagation of the virus) being much more important.
That's not what they say.
Killing Carol would be contrary to their goal of universal infection. Disregarding the risks involved in the spread of the virus doesn't.
I wouldn't say they disregard the risks. The Hive did spend the better part of a year attempting to spread without harming anyone. The mass global event occurred out of self-defense, as they put it. One of the more interesting elements of the show is the rigid imperatives the Hive operates under, and how they conflict.
There might be a hierarchy of priorities & preservation of specifically human life might be lower than their others, but their behaviors show it's undoubtedly a priority for them.