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@Naian <freedom : "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants."> ... which is literally the absence of a necessity that constrains you. Eren is propelled by a certain vision of the future. His actions are constrained by a certainty, a necessity. He is a slave to the Attack Titan's...

@Naian The operational definition of "freedom" is NOT the availability of choices. Freedom is mastery over necessity. Eren is propelled by necessity, not choice. That is why he even apologizes to the kids he will stomp on long before he actually did. The Attack Titan's power is a paradox. For...

how is the fact that they're willing to kill their friend Eren in order to stop genocide a demonstration of the "power of friendship"?

And for those who think the likes of Armin and Mikasa doing this as a display of some cheesy "power of friendship", you can't be any more off the mark. Unlike Eren who is acting on necessity, these guys are acting on pure force of will. If anything, they are demonstrating what it means to have...

Armin channeling his inner Nietzsche and basically woke Zeke up from his nihilistic stupor. As for Eren, well, is he actually even "free"? The fact that he is acting on the influence of the Attack Titan's apparently infallible portrait of the future means he is propelled by necessity. Whether...

is Eren actually "free"? and no, i'm not asking if he is being "controlled" by Ymir. if the attack titan allows one to peer into a "future" that is 100% certain to happen, how can its holder ever actually be free? and if Eren's main motivation for all of this is "freedom", what does that say...