Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160808233126/@comment-5774380-20160810181814

I don't see how we could talk about Bertolt without touching the issue of the genocide, because the main factor in the discussion of whether he should be considered "good" or "evil" is the presence or absence of a reason strong enough to justify his actions, which are, genocide. If his reasons are in fact strong, then we could understand his situation; if they turn out to be lame, then he's doomed. And the threshold is way too high to be taken lightly and assuming that he in fact has good reasons without considering the possibility that maybe he doesn't have them and was always in the wrong. It will be interesting to see how Isayama will deal with this, because in my eyes, I'll need a goddamn extraordinarily strong reason to stop thinking that he's fighting for some intrinsically egoistic motive and therefore he deserves what happened to him.