On 7/5/19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
This is of course all inferred guesswork. Welcome to my world of low probability logical deduction aka reverse engineering.
Sounds as though they have a "Speak no evil; Hear no evil, then See no evil" mentality. They'd likely prefer not to consciously perceive by any readily made stretch of the imagination the moral dissonance associated with secrecy to stifle global manufacturing developments, including their own in a prisoner's dilemma type scenario.
That probably would make them more willing to admit fault or talk openly about changing the world to a close deeply-trusted associate very rarely, since exclusively thinking about such changes in safely confined contexts mitigates moral strain or moral system breakage.
Fortunately none of us have sold our souls, yet; so, we needn't worry about reinforcing that sortof self-deception to maintain our sense of identity... yet : )
Attack on Titan, when Commander Erwin commanded Levi to save Armin instead. Erwin had become a monster to fight monsters. Now, with the humans on the verge of victory against their foe, someone not a monster must take the monsters place. Can one even preserve their personhood as a titan, or do all titans eventually become monsters?
I suppose the struggle between person and beast will always exist, and stronger in titans.