Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160609000528/@comment-26932251-20160609052248

Manuel, I think you got it all wrong simply because Isayama is never going to allow things to be so morally unambiguous like that.

I partly agree with you though.

" I have the theory that they hate humanity because the Titans are actually people from the Hometown"

My hypothesis is that the homeland hates the world within the walls because it's basically a giant prison AND the homeland is the source of all new titans which are used as the main mechanism of the prison. Think about it... the homelanders have the ability to turn lots of humans into dumb dumbs, they exist outside the walls, and there seems to be no end to the titans and the titans appear to come from outside the walls. Basically, the homelanders want to destroy the world within the walls because they want to stop being essentially feedstock for titan-making.

Eren in his internal monologue during his fight with Annie asks himself, "what could be worth all this death and destruction?" Stopping this endless cycle of turning humans into dumb dumbs for the rest of time seems a possibly worthy cause and something that would be worth the effort at least. The trouble I have with your hypothesis is that "it's water under the bridge". It's a travesty that homelanders would have one time in the past been turned into dumb dumbs but it's old news and killing a million people wouldn't change that and would putting in the incredible amount of effort really be worth such an empty revenge? Remember right near the beginning of this battle, I think we can safely presume that all of those titans that Levi is slaughtering are homelander 'warriors', that they all made basically an ultimate sacrifice even before they were killed by the Survey Corps. Remember the small 3-5 meter titans as well as the 15 meter titans, those are dozens of people altogether who injected themselves and set themselves for a one-way course either to living an eternal nightmare or a brief nightmare followed by death. Think about it from your own perspective, would you really consent to being that sort of 'warrior' just for revenge that otherwise wouldn't do anything for you?

I think it makes more sense that they feel motivated to stop any more of their people from being turned into dumb dumbs because that's stopping a bad thing from happening instead of just getting revenge for something you can't undo.