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===More on the purpose=== | ===More on the purpose=== | ||
Suppose that Muro really planned to eliminate everyone alive who did not already have a Chrysalis: Konoko, himself, the "selected symbiote candidates", who else?. What would be the motives of those of his followers who have no hope for survival? Are they ready to die for Muro's (and allegedly Hasegawa's) elitist cause? Were the Strikers converted to a | Suppose that Muro really planned to eliminate everyone alive who did not already have a Chrysalis: Konoko, himself, the "selected symbiote candidates", who else?. What would be the motives of those of his followers who have no hope for survival? Are they ready to die for Muro's (and allegedly Hasegawa's) elitist cause? Were the Strikers converted to a cult "religion" derived from Hasegawa's claims about an irrevocable environmental disaster? | ||
The suicide bombers ("we're all doomed") and the gratuitous violence displayed by the Strikers definitely hint at ''some'' kind of | The suicide bombers ("we're all doomed") and the gratuitous violence displayed by the Strikers definitely hint at ''some'' kind of fanaticism and possibly a form of nihilism: if everyone's doomed, aren't they doing the civilians a favor by killing them? if everyone's doomed, isn't STURMANDERUNG a sensible alternative to WCG's futile attempts to avert the apocalypse? If everyone's doomed if not for Hasegawa's Chrysalis, why not hurry its advent? | ||
===Profit and control=== | ===Profit and control=== | ||