User blog comment:Yawyawyaw/Chapter 56 predictions/@comment-179280-20140402210604/@comment-179280-20140404011529

@ Well, you're welcome I guess? lol.

But well, no. The villain is not necessarily evil. That's why I prefer using the word "antagonist". Perhaps the best example at the top of my mind in this moment is the movie "Wanted". Have you seen it? It summarizes quite well what I'm talking about. You cannot categorize antagonists as evil, unless it's outright stated as so. And in SnK, I think even the Military Police aren't evil themselves. Perhaps the only true evil is the Beast Titan, but we are not sure of that either.

And also, it depends on what can you categorize as an acceptable sacrifice for a greater goal (in the case of all the people that Reiner and Bert killed). We don't know what's the actual population in the world, so we don't know if it's a really high number in relation to that (it's still high, nonetheless). You have to take into account that Erwin is also willing to sacrifice the lives of good people to achieve greater goals, but the big difference is that we know what his goals are. We also know he will not stop at anything to achieve them, just the same as BRA. The big difference being that he's gotten way more screen (page?) time and he's got his motives explained. However, even Armin mentions they "are not the good dudes anymore", so will they make them evil? Perhaps. You can never know until the story actually finishes. But I don't know, I wouldn't question Reiner's morality when Eren killed two grown men when he was 9, even if their deaths were justified. That's some grey morality right there.

@Neo Well, we cannot know anything until that part is explained, because we don't know how many people are there?