Board Thread:Theories/@comment-28194879-20160412194627/@comment-27702860-20160515031211

Phoenix Bright wrote:Because that's the whole point of this topic."If we assume they are good guys, what could possibly have pushed them to commit genocide?" And toAggression25: Here is the problem: "Genocide is bad!" I do not wish to tangent/transform/bend/fold/spindle/or mutilate this thread into a philosophical exploration, but if you have a definition of "bad" that does not include "genocide" then I must observe that your definition does not fit "bad."

So I would suggest transforming that question. They know it is "bad." Why do they still do it? What excuse are they making. Are they like Zeke the Beast who seems to regard humans as vermin or at least not equal to him? Are they trying to justify it based on--as the topic suggests--"some sin in the past?" They will fail miserably in that endevor, and I think they know that to some extent.

So I have to agree withAggression25 in that we cannot consider them "good" based on what they have done. Now you may respond that there are not a lot of "good" characters: they have all done "bad things."

If Normal Titans are Poor Unwitting Slobs[Tm--Ed.] then Erin killing them is. . . "good?"

I would respond--as I have on similar type discussions on other boards--that such actions were necessary but they were never ''good. You see this in war, which is sort of the subject of AoT''.

But [Insert "Dramatic Pause."--Ed.], how is what B and R and even A do "necessary?"

--J.D.