Uchuujin no Kakushigoto - Vol. 3 Ch. 18 - Choice

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The people he helped…he truly didn’t try helping them if you think about it a little. He just helped enough to keep his semblance of personal peace intact. To have a friend shere there relationship is the same (not caring about his personal life/emotion/mentality), have a school life the same (vice rep), having a gf even though she’s an alien (overlooking a TON of things like viability ofhis friend’s gf coming back to life or brazen willingness to kill)
 
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not what everyone else is focusing on but I think it should be said that there's a fundamental problem with the example mc-kun here has set for helping people. Not in his competence but in the underlying idea and how he approaches problems. It's charity vs aid. Remember the thing with Mr. Beast funding eye surgeries? Sure, there's some who would complain about anything, such is the nature of twitter, (it's not a topic centered forum but a collection of everyone and anyone being thrown any random topic that gets traction. With so many people from everywhere, some are going to fight and that's by design for engagement.) but there was a meaningful criticism given in the way it was presented by communities focused on aid. Similar to the news articles that talked about a child raising money to pay their poor friends student lunch debt or the teachers who pooled their paid leave for one of them who was going through cancer treatment and would treat these as 'feel good' stories. What they wanted was for these stories to focus on asking why these problems exist (such as why the government acts like it's better to put them on disability rather than fund the relatively cheap one-time operation necessary for them to work and live normal lives.) and drive people to solve the underlying problem in mass rather than just be happy that someone helped some of them.

Anyway, mc here tends to focus on superficial help for the sake of quieting symptoms rather than confront a problem openly and earnestly. Keeping the peace isn't the same as helping. Fixing a problem tends to be disruptive, look at how civil rights movements went historically. On the other hand, you can have people lash out against a scape goat and never even APPROACH the cause of their problems. Many people complaining about culture war stuff usually have other worries in their social or financial life and so they collect grievances and lash out at someone to distract from their underlying problems. All the kids in the classroom were probably pretty fucked in the head for various reason but it's easier to beat someone than to deal with their stressors.

tl;dr: this is a lot of words to say mc is terribad at helping people, you know his whole schtick, and any plan he came up with or is based on his behavior is just as likely to go sideways as anything the alien came up with. Let's see if the two of them can fuck this up so much that it works.
 
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She really underestimates the human ability to make enemies out of literally nothing.
honestly it's a miracle we haven't gone extinct yet...
all it take is a few unhinge people pressing the nuclear button or such.
 
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Well, I only went and McFucking called it
That's not a logical conclusion from that information. If you want humans to kill each other efficiently and your assumption is "they need an enemy to not fight" the logical conclusion is "they'll only start all fighting if they no longer have an enemy to unite against"

Which is of course a really weird conclusion that doesn't make sense to humans, but exactly what a purely logical being would get from that information. Maybe she'll also apply some common sense and figures out that pure peace wouldn't work, she'd need to somehow brainwash everyone into a 50/50 split of enemy and ally with preferably half of each half disagreeing on who's who. Maximum strife. But she's not exactly showcased a lot of common sense so far.

Now the actual thing that stood out to me this chapter is that she might genuinely feel like she loves him and not be acting (she doesn't seem the type). Maybe the reason all their previous attempts failed is because aliens just can't defeat the D.
 
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I mean...she did develop love, that's something, I guess?( Unless she is lying, but she is kinda dumb so I kinda doubt it)
Shes lying for sure lol
She literally just explained how she viewed everything
Her helping MC was actually her trying to make him break down more
Her sticking to MC was actually to learn more about humans and help him make everything worse for others cause hes a shitty person
 
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“Human first ! Let’s build a wall around earth and we will make the aliens pay for it !!!” - Elected leader of earth federation 2124
 
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I think she gets it exactly. She did point out how the class was in a mess without katagiri.

What's she's pointing out is not that humans won't make enemies in those situations. It's that without an external enemy, humans find and make enemies among themselves. You're describing the exact thing she's after. As she said, humans thrive on making enemies.

If a disaster (that is really an alien invasion) is the 'enemy', then they band together to fight that. If there is no enemy, they fight among each other and destroy themselves. She WANTS people to start bitching about each other, fight each other, and eventually break down the structures of society in internecine conflict.

Hey, she's talking about our modern social media driven, apathetic, partisan and tribalistic society.



Never read this author's previous works I see.
No, she's saying that the constant controversy between humans, is making humans strong. Because its always a survival of the fittest test.
 
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Class Rep going to use his "D" & the power of love to show they can coexist. That and a binge sesh of "Alien Nation"
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That show its so good.
 
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this chapter is among the most wholesome one as weird as it is...................
 
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He master plan is world peace? God she is retarded. Does she not know about Israel-Palestine or middle east as whole? Or the Balkans? If I was the mc I will just chuckle and give her the D.
 

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