Board Thread:Manga/@comment-27321453-20190208231006/@comment-27125793-20190210215211

Zeke's idea of both Eldia's and the world's salvation is truly interesting to me. Rendering the Eldians sterile, leading to their eventual extinction, was something I never saw coming. It's good to find out about a new aspect of the Founding Titan's powers. While genocidal in theory and practice, it wouldn't really kill anyone, unlike what the rest of the world has planned for them, so it does have a certain moral high ground.

It is still a questionable course of actions, taking away the choice of having children, but it's guaranteed that the rest of the human race would be against the Eldians for, at least, a very long time. I mean, we saw how that janitor reacted to the Yeager family; with the other nations are even worse, that sort of animosity won't go away any time soon. They'll keep attacking Paradis, killing the Eldians there, and they'll keep retaliating. See that conflict going on for centuries, and that's a whole lotta dead people on both sides, and that's only if one doesn't manage to wipe out the other via mass murder. Parents raising their children to be soldiers, taking away their freedom of choice, for the mere sake of survival and centuries-old prejudices. That's just fucked up.

Zeke's idea essentially leads to all Eldians going extinct within approximately 80-90 years, without the need for slaughter on either side. The Eldians no longer suffer either intense racism and mistreatment or frequent attacks by the outside world, and the rest of humanity no longer has to worry about Titans. Circumstances have simply forced the situation where Zeke's goal seems the best win-win that can be managed, and that's what's tragic about this all.

On a side note, anyone else think that the whole disease from 600 years ago is an AoT universe mirror of the Black Plague? If we look at their level of technological advancement, as well as the facets of the epidemic Xaver mentioned, the widespread disease would have occurred around the same time period in the timeline as our own epidemic did. Just a thought.