From: as413@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric William Paslick)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: Gundam 0083
Date: 7 Oct 1992 07:06:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: as413@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Eric William Paslick)
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In a previous article, linmo@ecf.toronto.edu (LIN MONTEIL) says:

>Finally looks like I've got somebody's attention. But I think I've talked to
>you before. If so then you already know that I'm a Jion supporter. Char was
>justified in his attack on the Earth. I do not think that his primary motive
>is to kill everyone on Earth (and it would not have. It'll take far more than
>a chunk of rock less than a fraction of Earth's mass to blow away the Earth).
>As you've read in Animag (or should have read) he just wanted the Feddies to
>chill out (literally) for a while. hehehe. Remember what Camille said? To
>save the human race, a few sacrifices must be made. Char honestly believed that
>Earth was impeding the progress of mankind and de-evolving it out of existance.
>and he sees his actions as the only way of allowing the humans to continue to
>evolve, into what his father hoped a new race comprised completely of Newtypes.
>He truly belive that his actions are for the good of the entire human race in
>the long run and he is NOT completely unjustified in his belief. 

Well, first of all, Char didn't care one way or the other about the
inhabitants of Earth.  His goal was the absolute destuction of the
Federation government.  The purpose of droping Axis on the Earth is to
cause a nuclear winter.  Remember, he was putting nuclear material in
Axis to increase the contamination.  He would not have destroided the
Earth, just made it uninhabitable.  

According to the book MS Era, page 8, in U.C. 0050, there were still 2
billion people on the Earth.  At about this time, (correct me here, Mr.
Kim) the emmigration from the Earth ended.  I can't concieve of
evacuating 2 billion plus people off the Earth before the nuclear winter
reaches it's fullest.  I don't think it would be possible.

Any way I look at it, Char's plan is a plan of genacide, no differant
from what Hitler tried to do to the Jews, or the "ethnic clensing" the
Serbs are practicing on the Bosnians.  I can't condone genacide.

>Perhaps the main reason why I find Amuro disgusting is his childish attitude
>towards war. All-American goodie-twoshoes boyscouts really turn me off. He let
>his hatred of Char cloud his judgement over the greater good of the Earth.
>Despite what he says I think he sympathizes with Char's belief and he also 
>share Char's disgust for the constant bureacracy of the Federal Force. But he
>can not allow himself to admit this simply because his childish mind would 
>take that as a form of defeat. This sudden hatred was rather irrational
>considering back in the A.E.U.G the two were good friends and Amuro once
>complimented Char on his beliefs so where all this friction came from was
>difficult to understand. (but to be fair, this goes for Char as well). It
>could just be me I guess, but I REALLY HATE goodie goodies since in real life
>there's no evil good barrier, to claim constant goodiness while marking
>someone else as being evil is being naive to the extreme.

I think you're misintrepreting Amuro's character.  Remember, Amuro
ALWAYS fought for the Earth.  I don't believe Amuro has any hatred for
Char personally, rather for methods and his goal of subjecting the Earth
to a nuclear winter.  It was CHAR who provided Amuro with Psycho Frame
technology so they could continue their dual.  I personally don't find
Amuro to be a goodie-twoshoes boyscout nor do I believe that he has a
childish attitude.  He believes that Char started the fighting in CCA,
and is commited with stopping him.  

					Eric