Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20200108165627/@comment-33873869-20200122200022

TKGriffiths wrote: Remind me why you forgive and even support Eren and the Eldian empire for their mass slaughters and only condemn Marley's? I think it may have to do with some of these factors:

1)  Marley and the rest of the world originally hated Eldians due to the atrocities committed by people who are no longer alive.  Eren and his friends, on the other hand, were harmed by people who are still alive.

2)  Marley may have been the one who was wronged the most by the Eldian Empire, but they've also continued the Eldian cycle of hate when they practiced colonization (they've also continued other nations' hate toward Eldians).  Plus, Marley never even took responsibility for attacking Paradis, and instead they tricked Eren into attacking a lot of ambassadors, causing Marley's former enemies to hate Paradis even more (as well as continue the same old cycle yet again).  Marley should have just admitted their mistakes and true reasons to the world (even if it means losing non-existant credibility), and surrendered ownership of a good chunk of their territory and gave those territories their independence, as an apology (both toward Paradis and their former enemies).  That could have removed alot of hate towards Marley (especially hatred from Paradis) and avoided creating the monster that Eren became (who was even willing to look for peaceful solutions before losing hope for it due to people hating on Paradis even when they were a passive force, as well as when they only attacked Liberio as a counter to remove potential invaders for good). Plus, did the world never consider the possibility that Eren only attacked out of retaliation for Marley attacking them first? If they never considered that, and instead frame Paradis as the bad guys, then I'm pretty sure they all deserve to die for that dumb mentality of theirs. Why should I feel sympathy for any of them?

Edit:  Oh, and as for killing civilians:  While I understand being against killing citizens outside of Marley, the Marleyan civilians were stated by this Wiki to be taking war for granted, and don't seem to be changing that anytime soon. Plus, there's still a lot of potential for even non-Marleyan civilians to take up arms against Paradis for revenge anyways. Plus, destroying every human on the outside world and killing dissenting Paradisians that Eren can't brainwash could possibly be an effective way of ending the revenge cycle for good. Plus, Eren could make up for all those deaths by generating even more living people on those dead lands, reviving them like a phoenix revives itself. He may have killed lots of people, but he could end up creating even more lives to replace the dead and bring the world's human population back up to its previous number.