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Originally Posted by Altima of the Gates
Well we can't even really say that given the enormity of the damage his wish could cause. Trying to rewrite human nature could even be seen as more selfish, and not weighing the terrible price to be paid in the long run by essentially lobotomizing humanity.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions", as much as I hate that phrase, sometimes rings true.
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The consequences of Kiritsugu's wish are unrelated to him being selfless or not. The idea is that his intentions are (almost) completely selfless. I mean, this is a man who literally threw away all the happiness he could find for the sake of the world. His selflessness goes to such extremes that his sense of self could be said to be nearly non-existent. He is a person who would gladly sacrifice all he has for faces he's never seen, and he doesn't discriminate between the people he saves. Whatever harm his wish brings, just remember that he does it not for his own sake, but for the world's.
Oh, yes. Say what you like about his methods, but Kiritsugu is the closest thing to "selfless" that this show can offer, making him an appropriate example for what I was trying to say indeed.