Board Thread:Theories/@comment-28194879-20160412194627/@comment-28194879-20160429104826

TheDoctorX wrote: Methinks part of the message is that good people can be an enemy and those who think they are good can be evil.

For example: Erin understandably declares that he will kill all Titans. Taken at face value, that would mean all Shifters as well as Normal and Abnormal Titans. Next, even he learns that Normal Titans at least may simply be humans who have been transformed. Ymir's description of her years as a Titan being basically hell suggests that Normal Titans have little will. So is it "just" and "good" to target those who are basically puppets?

Well, they are killing others who are innocent which needs to be stopped.

The Big Question is why some shifters--Annie, Bertold, Zeke--feel the need to wipe out humanity. That being written, they all do a pretty sorry job at it. It seems to me that they are part of a plan--perhaps unwittingly--to thin down the human herd. As the Colossal Titan and Armored Titan, they could have breached all of the walls if they wanted to destroy all of humanity. Their war against human seems artificially limited.

As for "Original Sin"--and this is not a swipe at Phoenix's theory--it seems to be nothing more than an excuse for violence: blaming the children for what the fathers or grandfathers did.

--J.D.

Yes Eren's hate towards Titans is somewhat unjustified, it's like hating zombies, there is little point, they are not self-aware. All the same, killing zombies is justified and should not be stopped (unless you somehow find a cure but until then...)

I totally agree with you, it seems like Reiner and Bertholt could have wiped out humanity long ago, why didn't they do so? I really hope there will be an explanation and that it's not simply a plot device to give a chance to humans.

But when you say the original sin is just something their ancestors did and they're blamed for it, no, the page of chapter 78 I included in my first post clearly refutes that. It was the most popular theory till now and Bertholt clearly says that's not the reason.