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Originally Posted by ashlay
no, he does care about their freedom, even if he tried to justify it to himself as a mere "means to an end" in episode 24's preview.  |
A bit of a side note, but most of us haven't really been able to see (or understand) the last two episode previews for season one, for predictable reasons...so it's good to know a little of what he's talking about there.
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Giving Japan is at very least part of his atonement for the 200,000 Japanese people who died because of his stupid mistake. But then he's also got a sense of responsibility to his subordinates and in general a hatred of seeing people living on their knees in near to total slavery. Nunnally may be on the top of his list of things important to him, but that doesn't mean that freeing Japan isn't important to him too.
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It's clearly not his personal priority or ultimate objective, of course, but I do agree that he seems to find Britannia's treatment of Japan and its people to be disgusting and despicable, so now that he has the power to act against it, he'll certainly do so. Even more so, after he has contributed to hurting many innocent Japanese in the process.
In other words, freeing Japan (and technically, I imagine, all other "Areas", if it comes to that, even if only indirectly) is a morally good thing from Lelouch's point of view, even if his own personal mission goes beyond that.