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Yeah, it's morally wrong. But who needs morals in a gate
100% well said
Morals is the whole reason they are doing this to begin with. The survival of humanity as a whole before a predator, vs a survival of the fittest societal breakdown is a purely moral conundrum. Plus it's morality, or lack thereof, that guides the treatment of the espers as well. You can not come and say they are human beings and on the same breath say that their preventable deaths don't matter.
This is such an interesting conflict. As expected of BWAT, they always pump it up to 100 when it comes to character interaction between their leads. I love the approach here because both are in the right but both are also very much in the wrong.
Eve of course wants to protect Adam over everybody else and cannot understand why Adam is mad at him for his lack of humanity, but logically speaking, how is he supposed to react? In his mind, espers are cattle, with only the useful/powerful ones being valuable and everyone else meant to be disposed of. Even himself he sees as disposable and eventually meant to be destroyed, so expecting him to grapple with human ethics when he's been educated under this worldview is completely absurd. He's like a puppy who doesn't want the toy he loves to break at this point.
And Adam on the other hand, he fell for Eve at first sight, and kind of put him on a pedestal of the most beautiful, purest, most pitiful victim that just wants love and who loves humans, and who others only ever want to use. He did that on his own and, on his own, got disappointed when Eve showed the darker side of his personality. Like a parent that goes to the orphanage and adopts the quiet and pretty kid, only to return him a month later when he starts showing himself as the troubled teenager. But on the other hand, letting everyone die just to keep Eve happy is OBVIOUSLY morally wrong.
Like they are both wrong and they are both right and this is delicious and I need BWAT to put this out as a book so I can BUY IT.