[EVA] Seele's Motivations for the HCP

[10 o'Clock Assassin]

mistercb at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> Hello, everyone, I just signed on the ML and I just need to get some
> opinions of mine about Eva off my chest.  Primarily, the motivations SEELE
> had to impliment the Human Complimentation Program.  Personally, I have come
> to the conlcusion that the two base motivations for the HCP were:
> 
> 1. FEAR: fear of the unknown; the uncertainty of the future scared the
> predecessors to SEELE and NERV so much that they came to the conlclusion
> that the perfect world would be one where reality obeys your every command.
> Well, the unknown, IMO, is what gives life meaning, and taking that
> uncertainty out of life creates a world of sterility and banality.
> 
> 2. HUBRIS: arrogant pride that your way is the only way, and blast anyone
> who gets in your way or says otherwise!
> 
>         "Yes, we have killed half of humanity, but in the long run, the Human
> Complimentation Program will allow the remainder of humanity to be gods!
> It's the only way; we are right."
> 
> Yeah, right, where have I heard things like that before?  Sorry, but that
> line of thinking eventually puts humanity in the equivalent of living in
> their own personal fantasies for the rest of eternity, trapped in thier own
> little worlds. Serves you right for putting a person with even MORE fear and
> hubris (Gendou) in charge of the human factors (the Children).  Sorry, but
> that vision of Paradise is a hollow one, at best.

What do I think?  Fear and hubris (Have to look that one up.)  PRIDE!!  
Pride, that's it.  I think you're on point like a marksman! ^_^
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