Kiritsugu has a dream, he wants to create a world where no one cries.

This is not his whimsical, but his increasingly firm ideal after recognizing the cruelty of reality.

Dreams alone cannot change reality, and there are dreams that cannot be realized with hard work alone.

Because the so-called "dream" is usually the opposite of a person's reality, it is an unrealistic and difficult ideal to achieve, so when the dream shines into reality, it becomes more beautiful, but it is also illusory, and it is more real, but it is also far away.

The world believes that children should have dreams, and it doesn't matter if they are imaginative, because children are characterized by innocence, and teenagers should have ideals, and it may not matter if they are greater than reality, because teenagers are characterized by being overconfident, but adults must be realistic, because adults shoulder social and family responsibilities and cannot be willful.

Maturity, then, is about learning to accept, compromise, and give up. The so-called acceptance refers to adapting to this objective society that does not depend on personal consciousness; the so-called compromise refers to not thinking that one's own ideas can be 100 percent realized, learning to communicate and discuss, lowering conditions, and lowering goals; and the so-called abandonment refers to giving up naïve and stubborn ideas, and looking at problems realistically with the psychology of focusing on success or failure.

So it is paradoxical for Kiritsugu to be an adult who refuses to give up his ideals, on the one hand, he insists on his dreams more than anyone else, but when he realizes that his dreams are almost impossible to achieve, he falls into deep despair, and on the other hand, he learns to think realistically like an adult in his actions to save the world and guide his actions with a set of utilitarian ethics.

Sacrificing the few to save the many. Underpinned by this creed. Kiritsugu is always based on the equality standard of life without distinction between high and low, old and young. Indiscriminately choose to save the majority and kill the minority, even if the minority is innocent.

In other words, these two propositions should belong to the category of political ethics, that is, whether it is possible to sacrifice the interests of the minority for the sake of the interests of the majority, and whether it is possible to sacrifice the means for the sake of justice? In the sorrow of Kiritsu, it is more of a question of personal conscience.

Like an adult, Kiritsugu gave up his childhood dream of being a righteous partner - like an adult, he learned to adapt to this cruel world, and became Shura himself, starting to lower his conditions and goals. Although he saves people, he does not want to save all the people, and begins to give up the necessary reasons, choosing to save the majority and kill the few at the cost of success or failure.

But he still wants to create a world where no one cries, and he still suffers from the blood on his hands...... So you can imagine what a violent way this is a soul struggling and twisting!

"Justice" is an extremely delicate thing, because it is formless and insubstantial, it is just a concept that exists in the human mind. It can be as simple as Superman protecting the Earth is righteous, and conversely the monsters that invade the Earth are evil, and it can be complex. For example, Rawls's magnum opus "A Theory of Justice" has not put an end to the academic debate on justice. Instead, it sparked a bigger debate in the academic community.

Justice—For mature people, it may feel ridiculous and naïve, but when this qiē is shown in a different way in "Fate-Zero", it makes people think deeply.

Lin Luo is just one of He Chen's countless fans, people will gain some things and lose some things as they grow. In his eyes, Kiritsugu is more like a kind of porter's porter who "grew up with what they have discarded".

He said: "The young Kiritsugu naturally did not understand the meaning of the word 'justice' in politics and ethics, and whether he had thought about it when he grew up, the porter did not write it, and people did not know, but his actions since the murder of his father touched the theoretical and practical scope of political ethics." ”

So the complexity of Kiritsugu may lie in the fact that he is the embodiment of a personality with a political concept, and in "Fate-Zero", as a character who is opposed to Kiritsugu, it is obvious that Qili is aimed at the human side of Kiritsugu, and Artoria is aimed at the embodiment of Kiritsugu's concept as a political zhì. ”

Saber was an idealized knight incarnate as the legendary monarch of the Kingdom of Ancient Britain, King Arthur, and she was as difficult to coexist as ice and fire with Chetsugu, who did things to achieve his ends. As a result, although there are not many, the opposing positions and contradictory concepts of the two people have become one of the main highlights of the work, and the few dialogues between the two people are also a hot topic of controversy. ”

Kiritsugu thinks that Saber's justice is pedantic and useless, and in Saber's opinion, Kiritsugu's unprincipled behavior is unforgivable. In fact, what Kiritsugu said is not unreasonable, Saber insisted on the path of justice, didn't he end up being betrayed by his subordinates and the country was destroyed? Although Kiritsugu's approach was ruthless, he would not bring everyone to ruin together in the name of justice, and if it was from the perspective of taking into account the overall situation of the country's society, Kiritsugu's behavior would naturally be reasonable, while Saber seemed too idealistic and naïve. ”

"Politics is dirty, but Saber, as the monarch of a country, as the political center and the real power of a country, is so holy that it has reached the point of dehumanization, which is inherently incredible. In contrast, Iskandar, the king of conquest, although he has a dream of an endless sea and is very humane, will also use dishonorable means. From this point of view, the king of conquest has some truth in saying that Saber is not qualified to be king. ”

"So back to the beginning of the topic, if Saber is the embodiment of the ideal of justice, then isn't she, who has failed miserably, a dream that is illuminated by reality and makes people feel distant, illusory and meaningless?

When asked what he thinks of Kirei, as a character who has always been the protagonist of the story, and who is at the heart of the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail Wars, he is as controversial as Kiritsugu, and both of them are full of mystery and contradictions.

Lin Luo thought for a moment and replied: "If Kiritsugu's heart is like an angel, then Qili's heart is like a devil - Kiritsugu longs for a world where no one cries, and when he sees others in pain, he will also suffer, and Qili's nature is to use other people's pain as the source of his own happiness, so the opposition between Kiritsugu and Qili is fundamentally different from Saber- Because he and Saber share the same feelings of concern and yearning for a better world, but the paths they choose are different, while he and Qili are different in nature, although they do things by the same means. ”

People may be the descendants of angels and demons, and there are good and evil in their hearts, but this is a more literary statement.

Good and evil are people's value judgments, and values are different in ancient and modern times, so people may only have thoughts and behaviors, and good and evil are different. However, people are social animals, which is reflected in people's bodies, which is usually not their nature but their sociality, and it can be said that almost no one in society is born and is shaped by society.

So it can be seen that although Qili is extremely evil in nature, he has always demanded himself according to the standards of society, and lived a life of self-denial and diligence. Qili himself has become the opposite of himself, suppressing his nature everywhere, so that he himself does not know what kind of person he is, what he desires, and the alienation of human nature is visible. ”

Similarly, he was kind-natured, but after realizing the cruelty of reality, he also became a person who was diametrically opposed to his nature. Therefore, in the ending of "Fate-Zero", Qili looks at Kiritsugu, who recovers himself, longs for redemption, and walks into the fire to save people, which is a meaningful contrast, because the two men speculate about each other for so long, sacrifice their lives to fight, and finally the real opposite, but find that they are not interested in each other. ”

This shows that society can arrange two people who are not interested in each other to be fatal enemies, and of course this also includes people who originally liked each other, such as Saber and Lancer, two heroic heroes full of chivalry, who fight each other. As for Kiritsu and Kiri, it was purely fate that arranged the latter to stand in the way of the former, while the deeply contradictory former attracted the latter's great interest. ”

"In many cases, there are many things that people are not willing to do but are forced and forced to do it, but gradually, they will get used to it and adapt, which can be said to be people's self-alienation, or it can be said to be people's socialization, but with the insignificance of individual power, if you want to survive better in society, isn't such a sacrifice the price of happiness?"

Kiritsugu and Saber are two people who are unwilling to give up their ideals, but the ways they choose to achieve their ideals are very different, and the subtle thing is that they end up in the same way.

Speaking of which, Saber and Kiritsugu reflect the two sides of fraternity, the idealized side of the mind, and the difficult side of reality. Qili is the silhouette of fate, reflecting the coldness, emptiness, and even meaninglessness of fate.

In the end, ideals succumbed to reality and fate. (To be continued......)

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