Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20200308161511/@comment-37493549-20200309111235

Penguinluver1431 wrote:

And why is it people think that those of us who support the Rumbling would be okay with real world genocide? They're not the same thing. And in terms of the SnK world, peace talks were never going to work. That was Hange and Armin living in a dream world where everyone is happy and singing songs together and no one hates anyone, which is of course not how it is. And since everyone else WAS going for "do nothing to defend yourself" then the last remaining option for Eren is "genocide", though considering what the world has put him and his people through, it's not as if they don't deserve it. Those Liberio citizens were as involved in the attack on Paradis as the Paradis civilians were in the attack on Liberio - that is, not at all.

It's crazy that you continue to deny that people on both sides can get along peacefully despite this chapter being dedicated to exactly that. The entire message of this chapter is that the similarities of the people on both sides far outweigh the differences and that peace IS possible once people start to actually communicate.

Nobody is going for 'do nothing to defend themselves'. The plan everyone agreed on was to use a mini rumbling to destroy the enemy's military capability and render them incapable of harming Paradis Island. And then at the end of his life Eren would pass on the founder and it would continue to defend Paradis indefinitely. This plan is still possible if Eren comes back onside or the founder is inherited by one of the protagonists.

In the chapter they're talking about the worst case scenario where the founder falls into enemy hands, or Eren is killed and the founder is lost to a random baby.