Board Thread:Manga/@comment-31940900-20160810084407/@comment-5774380-20160811231056

The case of Joseph Kony's kids is very different. Actually, RBA case is very different to that of any other case of child manipulation that I know. In all real life cases of children being forced to do atrocities, we always find the presence of an authoritarian figure close to them, watching them and constantly threatening and instructing them. However, RBA spent 5 years unsupervised, living among their victims and acting on their own, and still killing, deceiving and plotting; even exhibiting some sadistic traits like Annie using an SC member as a yo-yo and Bertolt turning Armin into roast beef and wishing the rest of his friends would have died too. Typical manipulated children don't do that. This is far beyond a mere "they're puppets", it is necessary a good degree of cold blood to carry out all those actions.

Plus there's another key factor: they would not stop. In all of their encounters with the SC, they made clear that they would never stop no matter what, and that there was no room for truce or negotiations. That means that leaving ethical dilemmas aside, they had to be killed, there was no other option. They were too dangerous and commited to their mission to be left alive.