Quote Originally Posted by shinta|hikari View Post
Damn, you just compared Eldians to rabbits.
I did. I don't see humans as being much different to animals in regards to genocide or the suffering induced by taking away procreation success.

Both individuals suffer if violent murder was used instead, and both species are perceived as a threat by the other party.

Humans will be aware that their race will die out one day, and perhaps with it their culture or their version of history - but that doesn't really impact on the gravity of the genocide itself. That is, genocide of a culture-rich society is the same as genocide of a cultureless society.

This is especially true if Zeke's Eldian Sterilisation Project managed to guarantee that remaining Eldians did not suffer the treatment they have been subjected to thus far. But, as I mentioned before, Zeke's sterilisation plan is flawed because it doesn't address the fact that Marley wants Eldians for military purposes.

We're talking about solutions to win a war and addressing the various objectives of Marley, the world and Paradise Island.

Co-existence isn't impossible, because there's a kink in the story. Remember that Marley wants the Founding Titan because the world is getting better at killing titans. They want the Founding Titan to dominate the world before the other countries' tech trees overtake theirs. Meanwhile, the world is "apparently" scared of the Rumbling and is happy to help (we don't know for sure, we've only seen Marley come on this offensive).

So what should technically happen in 100 years' time? If what Marley says is true, then there will come a time when Eldians are themselves not a threat. In a world where everyone can kill titans with relative ease, Eldians cease to be the feared race that they were.

Conditions for peacefully ending this conflict would be:

1) Guaranteeing Paradise Island's safety.
2) Removing Marley's objective of world domination.
3) Removing the treat of titans by giving the world titan-killing technology.

That's a pipe dream though.

Eren's choosing to nuke everyone instead. Similarly in real life, nukes are super effective. Difference between his world and ours is that he's the only side that has them, while in our world nukes are slow and a few people have them, so the concept of guaranteed mutual destruction gave us relative peace and the cold war.