Brothers Geek and Ellen insisted on maintaining the union of the royal giants and the ancestral giants, and used "earth sound" as a deterrent to the world. Eldia, for the sake of this clan, escape the sea of misery forever. Gek's secret strategy is actually to destroy the world - we live miserable and unfree, and future generations will still be so, so we simply don't be born. When the source is extinguished, there is no result. I think of abstract humans and concrete individuals. Destroying the Eldia family is to treat them as a group, that is, abstract people. Allen and Gek are trying to save abstract concepts, and according to their logic, (if it goes well) Eldia will be saved. But is an individual who died in war—the commoners, warriors, soldiers, nobles, and royalty—really just part of the concept? In addition to forming a group of human beings, are their souls, unique colors and vitality, and those smiles and tears that they have had false and unworthy of attention? What we can deeply remember is the living individual, the dead Erwin, the dead Sasha, the dead uncle, the living Ellen, the living Mikasa, not "Eldia".
We see that they, like Reiner, Yani, Gabi, and pure Marais, are breathing and fearful human beings. Only in a daze will you realize that Eldia is inseparable from Marais. I want to ask Gek, is it really reasonable to base decisions on abstract concepts rather than concrete people?
I want to ask Ellen, where is the boy who used to hate giants and not kill innocent people? What exactly were you thinking when you turned Armin into a gigantic giant and crushed an entire town? Does it mean that "everyone will die eventually, but early death will lead to early salvation"? Is it that once you feel nothingness, you have nothing to worry about and nothing to love?
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