"I would like to end the world because my father is a dick"
Get in the robot Shinji. This is literally the fate of all mankind, including yourself. Your options are to let everyone die and then you die 3 minutes later or get in the robot, be scared, and possibly live.
I don't care if the Nazis razed their homes, killed their families, and will literally kill them tomorrow unless this position holds, I will not have a 14 year old boy join the Red Army. - robot_dog_with_gun
Child soldiers suck but if the only other option is literally just them being killed it's a moot point.
meh, if it's gotten to that point, we're already doomed. every institution has already failed to leave that choice to a child. at that point I'm less interested in the psychology of the kid (who's obviously fucked mentally) and much more interested in the story of how things got to that point.
But then NERV was never about saving the world, it was about fighting back juuuuust enough to create an opportunity for the absolute and final domination of the collective souls of humanity by a shadowy cabal who would be the immortal rulers of paradise. And also Gendo's big widower energy.
Get in the robot Shinji. This is literally the fate of all mankind, including yourself. Your options are to let everyone die and then you die 3 minutes later or get in the robot, be scared, and possibly live.
if we have to conscript child soldiers and we choose to conscript child soldiers maybe all mankind should fuck off
Child soldiers suck but if the only other option is literally just them being killed it's a moot point.
meh, if it's gotten to that point, we're already doomed. every institution has already failed to leave that choice to a child. at that point I'm less interested in the psychology of the kid (who's obviously fucked mentally) and much more interested in the story of how things got to that point.
IIRC child soldiers weren't the only option.
But then NERV was never about saving the world, it was about fighting back juuuuust enough to create an opportunity for the absolute and final domination of the collective souls of humanity by a shadowy cabal who would be the immortal rulers of paradise. And also Gendo's big widower energy.