Board Thread:Manga/@comment-31940900-20160614173614/@comment-27702860-20160615075941

A student who recommended the series stated he liked the "moral ambiguity." And he had only seen HALF--"Hal-fu?!"--of the anime! He did not have Eren proclaiming Death Doom and Destruction on all Titans only to realize that, well, they may be innocent people made into Titans.

That being written, I think part of the "Point" is there is moral ambiguity and there is moral bancrupcy. The approach of of Reiner and Bertholdt strikes me very much as a "Kill them all, God will know his own" for those of you who are up on your Albigensianism [Stop that!--Ed.]. I would almost think that, once the Reiss Family fell, if the Homelanders simply said, "hey, you know the Hip Hop music you make? It turns us into Titans. Like, cut it out!" the Newer Regime would respond, "Really? My bad!"

Instead you have what seems like a contradiction: R, B, and A may mourne Marco, but only because they knew him. Everyone else? Men, women, children? They see them as insects. They have dehumanized them. See Annie's smile and mercy towards Armin. That is not ethics, that is "oh, if I like you, I won't kill you."

--J.D.