Quote Originally Posted by KrayZ33 View Post
So Rimuru is just stupid then and ignores that? Because he doesn't care at all. So why should the viewer of this show. And it's not just him "pretending" that he doesn't care.



Then shut up with your nazi bullshit and nonsense and stop your strawmen. It's as easy as that



to be fair, it was only a secret as much as you could keep a massive and horrible undertaking like that a secret.
Officially, they were laws that would, depending on which year you are looking at, result in the death penalty if you spoke out and against basically anything that would harm the reputation of the NSDAP or Germany in general.
These laws exist because people obviously talked about stuff. In fact, it tells us how much trouble talking about caused and they didn't just exist for the sake of it, they were actually followed/carried out.
The Nazis were very efficient in using speech to disguise what was actually going on. NS-code language and propaganda made it sound like they were "only" going to be deported to the east... or even "evacuated" actually at first.
But in 1939 when they load and unload the trailers right next to your house/city, and the crematorium burns day and night and the whole town smells like burning bodies, at least the cities right next to the camps obviously knew what was happening and thus people started talking about it. Or soldiers started writing about it (either in their diaries, or sometimes even in letters)
And while there were protests (as much as you can protest during a dictatorship), not necessarily only out of compassion either, there were also those that would benefit from that and thus accept what has happened and in ~1941 the deportation and shootings were actually done in the open too.
But, once more, this is so off topic and doesn't even remotely catch what has happened in that episode.
Even if you want to paint that army in one colour, it still doesn't "justify" (-> justice) that massacre.

But Rimiru obviously threw away his "holier than thou" attitude and that's what we got.

Netflight summarized it well.
Yeah. What irks me is that basically the anime attempts to absolve Rimuru from moral dilemma by giving him the bs resurrection option. Oh how convenient, there are 20k soldiers and the resurrection requires 10k. Makes you wonder what Rimuru would have done if it had been only 6000 soldiers. Fly to Falmuth and kill 4000 civilians?

It's just such a lame, and again convenient scenario that happens way too often in anime. I don't believe that teenagers, who are the main audience of this, are less annoyed by such contrievances. It's just bad writing.

And then again: What would Rimuru do if there was no resurrection option? I'd bet good money that he'd try to negotiate then, after strengthening his town's defenses. And even when the soldiers attacked then, he'd choose to kill only a few in a way that scares the rest away. Because that's the Rimuru we've gotten to learn in all the time.

Ah, I hate that resurrection bs :/