• AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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    11 months ago

    "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.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      if we have to conscript child soldiers and we choose to conscript child soldiers maybe all mankind should fuck off

      • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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        11 months ago

        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.

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          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.

        • Nacarbac [any]
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          11 months ago

          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.