David Lerman a �crit:

At 10:38 AM 11/23/97 -0600, Captain Jack wrote:

Author�s notes:

After reading so many fics about Gendou being a cruel heartless man, I
decided I�d take some time away from my other Eva fic to write this
one.  I was planning on using some of this in my other fic, but I
decided I�d write it now.  In case you were wondering, I find Gendou
Ikari to be an admirable character in that his thought process is one
very similar to mine.  His is one which is purely based on logic, void
of emotions that cloud his judgment.  He is able to do all this while
playing with very high stakes.  For him to let his emotion rule his
judgment could mean mistakes that would cause the Third Impact.  I think
he hides behind a front, just like every other character in the series
does.  That�s why I believe he does not deserve all the hatred many fans
thinks he deserves.  C+C much appreciated.

  "emotions that cloud his judgement"  So much horror has been done this
century by those who believed that emotions only cloud judgement.  The
starvation of the kulaks, the murder of the Jews, the killing fields of
Cambodia, all ordered and performed by people who believed that their
judgements were cool and rational ones, unclouded by emotion.  Allowing a
role for emotions in one's decisions does not mean letting passion overrule
intellect.

True.  Human emotion and logic are one of the many things that make us higher
thinking beings.  It has been said, "Even Hitler had good intentions."  But you
can also recall that Hitler had a hatred of Jews.  These emotions of hatred are
ethnocentrism the centers of prejudice.  On the other side of the coin is love
and compassion.  These can also create problems in judgement as with biased
views.  Each person has their own personal struggle between the balance of
logic and emotion and there is no real answer to how a person should think.  I
am one who strives toward greater logic in though so as Spock in Star Trek
says, "The needs of the many are greater than the needs of the few."  Even if
the few includes me.  This is the product of logic, the mass killings of people
is not.  These are the results of twisted logic "clouded by emotions" as I so
say.  It is not of logical thought to kill another person who is defenseless or
who is not a threat.

  The biggest problem I have with Gendou and SEELE is that they do not have
the right to make the decisions they do.  They arrogate to themselves the
right to decide humanity's fate by decisions arrived at secretly.  They
aren't even elected representatives with that mandate.  They do not inform
the world of the choices before them.  They and they alone decided.  This
is why I despise Gendou and SEELE.

I never said that SEELE is all that great of an organization.  As for Gendou, I
don't see him in any real position to stop the Human Compliment Project
outright.  SEELE has more power than Gendou and could easily remove him if he
doesn't perform to their wishes.  He does have the power to alter it and that
is what he attempts.  We can also look at the the Human Compliment Project as
this:  Judgement Day.  The symbolism at the end of End of Evangelion could be
seen as Judgement day where people are being separated between SEELE's and
Gendou's versions (Heaven and Hell) and they are merely carrying out the will
of God.  That's how I see it anyways.  In this case, who is God to say what
direction man should take?  He certainly wasn't elected to carry out this
will.  People will say this is different because man is not the same as God.
But we choose men to lead us to salvation, whether it be Mohammad, Moses,
Jesus, whoever.

Captain Jack