Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
They weren't really Aberrants. They were normal guys who responded to the female titan's scream. My understanding is that they all respond that way.
Well, they called them aberrants, like, twice. So I'm just taking their word for it.

Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
And as for the reason not to kill those things, they said before that the key to fighting titans is to NOT fight them. The soldiers were bait, just like in the mission where they tried attracting all the titans to the corner of the wall so Eren could move the boulder - they don't want unnecessary casualties. Killing titans, as far as they knew, didn't help their cause, but increases the chance of people dying while doing so.
I just, I don't agree, I guess. Seems like free titan kills to me. As long as they continued to ignore them, there was no reason not to be putting them down. Everyone you kill now is still going to be one less to fuck up some other plan in the future.