Where Vash refuses to kill and Knives refuses to save, Wolfwood is the human who is burdened with choice and free will. He must carefully consider ever occasion where he kills and must learn to live with the consequences of his willful actions.
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I see it as ultimately about something like environmentalism. What are our duties towards inferiors? Knives is the Nietzsche espie; Vash believes in harmony. Much of the tension has to do with the interplay between timeless ideals and time bound decision making in the real...
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... world. Hence Wolfwood and Chapel the Evergreen are not truly opposed -- rather, Chapel, like a father, wants to teach Wolfwood that you have to make time bound decisions, even if someone is left worse off. The clock is ticking! Wolfwood learns the lesson, but infects...
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I absolutely agree! But, Vash's attitude is basically that it's worthwhile to sacrifice yourself a little more in order to find a way to do the greater good. Delaying tactics are morally good because you can use that time to do things that seem impossible.
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That may be but he could have prevented a lot of death if he'd just crushed Knives's head when they were kids! His childishness is the source of his virtue but it caused evil.
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And in the end, he chose to 'save' Knives instead of killing him because he rejects the idea that you can't have both. He's almost always found a way to have both, simply because he considered it and valued it when others didn't, and that was worthwhile for him.
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A darker read on the show is that his power allows him to get away with dumb decisions, thus proving he is beyond conventional morality (Knives's thesis), and he elected a foolish and dangerous decision by letting Knives live.
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I think that's the correct and implied authorial reading actually. Meryl and Milly are literally there to inform Vash of the consequences of his decisions and how destructive they are on everyone else even if Vash seems immune to harm from mere humans.
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The reason I don't think that's the correct reading is that the ending reaffirms Vash's position. Vash's behavior is an extreme that's impossible for humans, sure, and he definitely does damage despite trying to minimize it, but he would do more if he was less careful.
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Maybe Vash was right but also an asshole.
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