"Removing evil is not the same as creating good." - Thane Krios
Assume you have been given total power over humanity. Also assume that you know about the Incubators and their deceptive exploitative behaviour in contracting little girls to stave off the heat death of the universe. Assume that you have resolved to use all of humanity's political, economic and social capabilities to fight them.
Posit that you have met other species who have been wronged by the Incubators and who join your alliance to fight against Kyubey's entropy-reduction racket. Sailing through the sea of stars, you encounter the remains of countless fallen civilizations, who have fallen victim to Kyubey's failure to address population dynamics. Remember that in episode 10, Kyubey dismisses any responsibility over the planet after his actions lead to the creation of Kriemhild Gretchen, something that will destroy all life on Earth. He simply does not care about it. From this, we must presume he has destroyed countless civilizations due to this mismanagement.
Eventually, somehow, just somehow, in your war against the Incubators, you have fought them to their final planet. You have the capability to destroy their planet. You have a moral cause on your side, the condemnations of thousands of civilizations, fallen and alive, railing against the Incubators. You are judge, jury and executioner.
Countless civilisations humanity have met clamor for humanity to bring justice to the Incubators, whatever that means. A successful method of reducing entropy has been discovered that does not involve the pain and death the Incubators bring into the universe. A process has been discovered to further progress science, technology and society without their interference. The Incubators are now obsolete, their sole self-justification for existence gone. Yet, they intend to continue making contracts in the Universe because they view their method as more efficient than the newly discovered method of entropy reduction.
Question 1: What do you accuse them of and how do you judge them? How do you justify your viewpoint? How is your viewpoint problematic?
Options that I've thought of for discussion:
Assume you have been given total power over humanity. Also assume that you know about the Incubators and their deceptive exploitative behaviour in contracting little girls to stave off the heat death of the universe. Assume that you have resolved to use all of humanity's political, economic and social capabilities to fight them.
Posit that you have met other species who have been wronged by the Incubators and who join your alliance to fight against Kyubey's entropy-reduction racket. Sailing through the sea of stars, you encounter the remains of countless fallen civilizations, who have fallen victim to Kyubey's failure to address population dynamics. Remember that in episode 10, Kyubey dismisses any responsibility over the planet after his actions lead to the creation of Kriemhild Gretchen, something that will destroy all life on Earth. He simply does not care about it. From this, we must presume he has destroyed countless civilizations due to this mismanagement.
Eventually, somehow, just somehow, in your war against the Incubators, you have fought them to their final planet. You have the capability to destroy their planet. You have a moral cause on your side, the condemnations of thousands of civilizations, fallen and alive, railing against the Incubators. You are judge, jury and executioner.
Countless civilisations humanity have met clamor for humanity to bring justice to the Incubators, whatever that means. A successful method of reducing entropy has been discovered that does not involve the pain and death the Incubators bring into the universe. A process has been discovered to further progress science, technology and society without their interference. The Incubators are now obsolete, their sole self-justification for existence gone. Yet, they intend to continue making contracts in the Universe because they view their method as more efficient than the newly discovered method of entropy reduction.
Question 1: What do you accuse them of and how do you judge them? How do you justify your viewpoint? How is your viewpoint problematic?
Options that I've thought of for discussion:
- Plan Gundam Antagonist, where humanity carries out some pretty extreme actions and is consequently hated and feared by the rest of the universe.
- Plan Treaty of Versailles, where the Incubators are forced to accept harsh terms to compensate for all the damage they've caused and are not allowed to make further contracts.
- Plan San Francisco, where humanity concludes a peace treaty with the Incubators, changing them into a species that doesn't need to form contracts and where the Incubators are obligated to enter humanity's sphere of influence in return for protection from the other angry civilizations of the universe.
- Plan Regulation, where the Incubators are allowed to make contracts, severely regulated and scrutinised to aid the hypothetical entropy-reduction program.
- Plan Loot and Plunder, where all the civilisations of the universe are allowed to freely exact their revenge on Kyubey for one day, after that, returning to status quo ante bellum.
- Plan Cabinet War, where a peace treaty is concluded without harsh terms for the Incubators, returning to status quo ante bellum, the war having functioned only to humiliate them.
- Plan Marshall, where a peace treaty is concluded that actively pursues good relations with the Incubators and is similar to Plan San Francisco, with an ulterior motive, being humanity becoming more powerful than humanity's other allies combined.
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