[EVA] Ritsuko mass murderess!

[Rachel K. Clark]

RJN wrote:

> "Justified"? In destroying them, in her feelings?

These particular lines resound with my sentiments:

_______________
RITSUKO:
These things here that look like Rei have no souls.
They're just vessels.
......
They're not people. They're things shaped like people.
_______________

I don't know how Sadamoto justifies giving his Rei clones 'personalities' 
(since they're described as soulless in the manga, as well), but, in the 
anime, they're depicted as meatsacks lacking any human qualities whatsoever. 
The fact that they can move and are responsive to stimuli doesn't mean very 
much, considering these are qualities intrinsic to life as we know it. 
Unless these bodies were somehow endowed with souls of their own, they could 
never be anything but instruments devoid of the "spark of life".

For my part, their continued existence is more unethical than anything else. 
Why should these bodies who will never have an opportunity to TRULY live as 
human beings unless someone else dies be kept alive?

> I would have liked
> to see how Rei II herself might have reacted had she been there.

We don't see her reaction on-site, but we see her coldly and contemplatively 
staring at the aftermath in #25'.

Rei doesn't hold her own existence in much regard; she seems disappointed 
whenever she finds out "I'm still alive..." The clones represent a means of 
manipulation and entrapment. Because of them, Rei cannot escape from her own 
unnatural, unpleasant existence. If she dies, there is simply another body 
waiting for her. As such, I think she would find the clones' destruction, on 
the whole, liberating.

> The "detrudo release" seems to be some chemical & other agent that
> disintegrates organic matter.

See the references to "destrudo" in #20 and #26'. (It turns up in supplement 
dialogue added to Renewal #21, as well, at Yui's CE.) It seems to part of 
the whole "metaphysical biology" discipline -- "soul science" -- that so 
much of NGE's gobbledygook can be placed under.

> Perhaps similar to what was used to
> destroy the "dummy" Eva parts when they went wrong. "Liliputian
> Invader" episode?

I _think_ gizmos called "blasting bolts" are responsible for Eva limb 
detachment, tho I have no idea how they're supposed to work. Surgically 
embedded and activated remotely, I guess?

-Reichu