Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-93.42.16.80-20151001205732/@comment-2112031-20151007193012

Weedle McHairybug wrote:

Bluerock wrote:

Weedle McHairybug wrote: He can always find more people to recruit, though. He didn't NEED to save the Outer Heaven Resistance at all, and if anything it would have actually been smart and even more dastardly to leave people to die on the battlefield if the going gets rough. It's not like he even needed to worry about his reputation anyhow, since his reputation was already tarnished with the end of the Outer Heaven Uprising when it was revealed he was playing both sides. That's what I'm trying to get at. They didn't need to have Black Collar be Kyle Schneider, for example, nor did they need to actually have him join Big Boss to repay him for saving his fellow resistance members. Just omit that, and keep in Big Boss's speech to Solid Snake and it wouldn't cause any particular conflict regarding morality. So saving resistance members/children, using their gratitude, then feeding them back on to the battlefiel to propagate endless warfare, is A-Ok, because he didn't NEED to... Right. They were already on the battlefield anyways. And for the record, saving the resistance members would actually be more likely to land him in a coffin since they'll just repay the favor by trying to kill him seeing the opportunity to kill him for the pain he caused them. Had I been in his position, I'd rather leave them to die than have them join, even if it meant feeding them back onto the battlefield, precisely BECAUSE I know full well they would kill me the first opportunity they get if I exposed myself. That's why I don't buy that whole thing with MG2 and MGSV. Heck, Wesker actually tried to have Ada die in the destruction of Raccoon City specifically because she seemingly failed him, and he had a similar ideology regarding power. Personally, I think that Big Boss had developed a rather twisted version of morality, in which he believed himself to be doing the right thing regardless of what it was. Basically, he honestly wanted to save soldiers, such as the resistance members, in order to prevent them from being used. But was selectively ignoring the fact that he was using them at the same time. He had become rather unhinged and irrational is what I'm saying.

Between MGSV and MG2, Big Boss had become fully dedicated to eradicating the Patriots and fulfilling his own personal vision of a world of constant warfare. Using Venom Snake and the Diamond Dogs as decoys was essentially step 1 in a long line of questionable steps and decisions that ultimately culminated in him threatening the world with nukes. My only complaint is that it all happened offscreen.