Subject: Re: [FFML] [ffml][eva]Thoughts of a man
From: Chris Davies
Date: 11/24/1997, 12:54 PM
To: Captain Jack
CC: "fanfic@fanfic.com" <fanfic@fanfic.com>

On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Captain Jack wrote:

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.

	And that's NOT the way Gendou is.  "MY needs --", accepting for the
moment your premise that he's doing all that he does to get Yui back, "--
are greater than the needs of the many, so I will f--k over anyone I have to
in order to get what I want."  *That*, sir, is the summary of Ikari Gendou
as depicted in your work.  And, sir, if you admire him, I recommend strongly
that you *never* have children.

	That the needs of the many are greater than the few or the one is a
decision that can only be ethically made *by* the few or the one.  This
isn't about logic and emotion, this is about right and wrong.  What Ikari
Gendou wants is *wrong*, and the way he goes about accomplishing it is EVIL.
Are you so blinded by the darkness of our world that you no longer recognize
evil when you see it, sir?  Then, sir, you are as damned as he is.

Chris Davies.
("NO!  Don't leave me!" -- Ikari Gendou.)
("HURTS TO BE ABANDONED AND ALONE DOESN'T IT YOU FILTHY BASTARD?" -- me,
reacting to the above.)