Board Thread:Manga/@comment-31940900-20160614173614/@comment-26932251-20160615084312

Moral Bankruptcy is definitely one way to put it. Bertolt just states matter of factly that something like 800,000 people need to get massacred and also get more milk if you're going out. There's no middle ground with someone who has such a clarity of intention, which by the way, that's one reason why a lot of people are attracted to sociopaths, clarity of intention, because they aren't conflicted by empathy and general concern for other people, it makes certain forms of confidence come naturally to sociopaths and makes them attractive to people who lack such confidence themselves.

Sorry, I digress, Bertolt has a clarity of intention that makes finding any sort of middle ground with him impossible. I mean, he literally thought valid behavior was to say, "ok, so, here's what I want, I want to kidnap your friend and I want to kill you and there's nothing you can do to stop me so I'm going to get what I want and there's nothing to discuss further." Maybe it was rational in his own head but someone who exhibits that kind of behavior? Anyone who doesn't want to be a victim of their intended actions needs to neutralize them (meaning kill them. You can either lure a shifter very deep underground to attempt to imprison them, not an option right now, or kill them. Wall people lack the means to reliably non-lethally neutralize a shifter. Annie doesn't count cause it was by her own means that she became neutralized.) the first chance they get because someone whose mind is set so clearly is going to try to pursue that objective every opportunity they get, meaning specifically, Bertolt is limbless but as soon as he can manifest another titan and possibly create another multi kilaton explosion, he's going to do it. He's going to keep trying to exterminate the Wall People until either he or they are dead.

There is no middle ground.

MasterOfTheWastes, it's cool that you like Bertolt and Reiner, but let me tell for your own sake, Isayama will either write some kind of out for them, some kind of escape, or they both die. There's no rational reason why the Survey Corps would keep them alive.