Board Thread:Manga/@comment-39492511-20190605174204/@comment-25933225-20190605200015

She's already redeeming herself, Isayama has already started to take her away from all the brainwashing she's been through her whole life. Thanks to chapters 109 and 111, she's learning that people from Paradise aren't demons, but just people like her, with dreams, feelings, they can be good, bad, grey, criminals, innocents, soldiers, etc... She probably won't side with Paradise, but her evolution is : "I now understand that people from Paradise are people like us".

Why mature grown adult like to wish death upon children? Well, that's not even an AoT subjetc, it's a complicated and large question. There are many ways and many reasons about why some adults can kill children/wish for their deaths:

- Different mentals conditions: psychopaths, psychotics, madness, etc...

- Specific contexts (2 examples): 1) Mercy. In Game of Thrones season 7, we see that a farmer from season 3 killed her daughter (Sally ) so she won't suffer the winter (he knew they weren't going to make it anyway). That's one example about "why an adult would want to kill a child": to prevent him/her pain that he/she is going to face, and that he/she won't be able to overcome in any way. 2) Necessity: In American Sniper, the main character wants to kill a child because if he doesn't do it, the child was going to kill with a bomb a few soldiers. He's forced to kill him, even if he doesn't want to. That is another example, doing it to prevent more deaths (I'm not taking position about the American wars in Middle-East, just describing a fact pictured in a movie dealing with these wars).

- There might be more and more possibilities, but here is the last one I can think of: when you've been through brainwashing, maybe in a war situation, or because you're used to kill, you can be able to kill children. Maybe one of the worst: here, it's not a mental condition or one of the two situations I've depicted before, just the ability to kill children while being fully stable and not forced to do it. As horrible as it might be, some people like killing. Is it a mental illness? Hard to say, those people are fully aware of what they do, I think it mostly depends on what is your definition of mental illness (and where you put the limit of "when is it considered a mental illness and when it isn't", because it works by shades, so the limit is arbitrary), because it's not as precise as a physiological illness, who has a precise definition (you've got the disease/it's developping/you don't have it.)