[EVA] The EoE Situation

[colin tate]

Interesting distinction.  I agree with the possibility of their
actions as being moral or amoral (depending upon viewpoint), but I
wouldn't consider it to be done for scientific reasons, rather more
for naturalistic reasons.  Its a progression of humanity.

I would also never consider SEELE to be an evil organisation, but that
is more to do with trying to define what evil is.  (about to pull some
stuff out without proper citation - my apologies) Ironically, some
people have argued that the term evil came about as a part of
religious discourse, to reinforce the differences between goodness and
badness.  I'd like to think of them as well-meaning, but selfish.  At
most bad, but never evil.

C.

On 5/4/07, RJN <rjn at beeb.net> wrote:
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> : > To Discuss: Is anyone truly evil in EVA?
> :
> : That requires a definition of evil in relation with this show.
> Considering
> : the main topic is the necessity, right and duty to accept life and
> live
> : through pain in hope of finding happiness (where "to live" is
> defined as to
> : interact with others who define our self as much as we define
> theirs), the
> : only party in the show that has an open plan to refuse life and deny
> it on
> : planetary scale is Seele, who seek to avoid the pain of life as
> interaction
> : by eliminating interaction through the return to the original Source
> of
> : Life, a single and lone being who has no other to interact with.
>
> Ironically, while Shinji re-boots misery on Earth, because its the
> only situation he knows & therefore can come to terms with, Yui in Eva
> 01, floating in space for eternity, is like a part-achievement of
> SEELE's plan, a token version of what SEELE wanted for the whole of
> humanity.
>
> But if SEELE's motives were purely scientific in boosting the
> d/evolution of mankind to its ultimate state, can that be considered
> evil, or just amoral?
> RJN
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