Board Thread:Manga/@comment-39295103-20190704080517/@comment-25933225-20190704155223

Well, first, this question isn't that relevant as the concept of "good" or "bad" are nothing more than concepts we apply on people, countries, etc... But it doesn't have a concrete value. You can't measure "good" or "bad", such things are just human inventions, making that question a bit irrelevant. But still, I'll try to answer:

During its long history, Eldia has killed far more people than Marley has ever done in its entire history. Tho, we can't consider that what happened during the reign of some bloody kings/queens as a good portray of Eldia: under the rule of some kings/queens, this nation might have helped other countries, made some alliances, making a part of the world prospering. It really depends on what part of Eldia's history you take in account, sometimes it was full of killings and wars, on other times it might have been peaceful and nice. Of course, I'm simplifying things, everything is not dark or shiny, it's always shades of grey. Some "good" kings might have to deal with what bloody kings have left, other kings might have litterally destroyed every efforts toward peace and prosperity made by previous kings, ... Currently, Eldia (Paradise) tried to make peace with the world, but those hopes were destroyed by the Yeagerists.

Marley had its reasons for putting Edlians into camps after the Great Titan War: they've been slaughtered for centuries (well, as I said with "bloody kings" and "good kings", maybe that during some reigns Marley lived peacefully with Eldia, who knows, but we won't take that in acount), and they imprisonned Eldians because they needed to have a control over them, as they had 7 Titans with them, so they needed Subjects of Ymir, that's why they chose not to eradicate the remaining. As a political system that helped Marley to gain more and more power, this isn't surprizing that such a system (Eldians in camps, etc...) is still there after a century. Against the interests of a whole country, the life of a hundreds of thousands of people aren't necessarilly that important. Also, the heritage of false history and propaganda helped this system to remain.

So, Marley keeps this system to gain power, and Eldia gained power using conquests. In terms of suffering, deaths, Eldia is far worse than Marley, but Eldia existed for 2000 years. Marley is only making its politic of conquests and Eldian-abuse for a century. But if Marley did this for 2000 years, in the end, who would have caused more death and suffering? Hard to say. So, we can't really consider one as better, mostly because even if we use the question : "Who caused more death and suffering?", Marley has done less, but would have done the same or maybe worse if given 2000 years.