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My post became empty after I posted it? :/

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Originally Posted by EnerPrime

The problem is that Ryouma and his plan being the best we've got seems to be based on the words of Ryouma himself. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Ryouma stopped looking at other options after coming up with the 'kill billions' plan because he really seems to like that plan. All the statements of 'there's no other way' stem from Ryouma, and as far as I'm concerned that makes them far from reliable fact.

But the point is, you're only perceiving this because of your own ideologies.

There are some things, which are inherently evil - like I dunno, kicking a perfectly healthy loving baby, down the stairs or whatever. There is no argument for how that could be perceived as good. Or at least no argument that functions under the laws of being a human.

Now you're writing off Ryouma as a psycho, fine, but with how much we've got to go on I think we have a lot of evidence to call his plan a necessary evil. You're fixating on the people who are dying, that is a perfectly normal reaction, but you're also assuming he's killing six billion people for shits and gigs like he actually could do more and is just refusing...for some reason. We have a LOT more evidence to prove that ISN'T the case, than we do to say it is.

Gaim is a toku show, granted, but it also seems to be going out of its way to capture the complexity of human emotion and the kind of complex moral, and ethical decisions that real world leaders have to make all the time. Sometimes the best option is sometimes the worst option in other cases, and some decisions are hard and don't make you any friends. With a different focus, Ryouma could have quite easily been the hero of the show. At least with what we have now, he might turn round and become a total nutter but I can't say that until it happens.

Especially as I'm someone who doesn't want to boil down such a complex series to blacks and whites like good and evil. I think if you peg anyone in this show as a wholly good, or wholly evil, then you've completely missed the point. I'm sorry.