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Originally Posted by Renall
Or I could, if I didn't derive satisfaction from reasoning it out based on the evidence the author has chosen to give me, and have consequently come upon a slew of potential answers which do not satisfy me. I'm trying to take him at his word and all that, but I am of the opinion that what he's given me to work with pretty much sucks no matter how it's likely to shake down.And isn't that entirely possible? Wouldn't we want to prove that, if we could, to silence some of those baseless speculations? You won't shut up everybody, but you'll at least provide a bedrock for intelligent people to say that no, the Pyramids were not built by aliens.
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Well as you often mentioned in Ange's world we don't really know what is common knowledge. However it seems that the majority of people nonetheless accepts it as an accident and not a mass murder. You'd think such a conclusion must've been based on facts. Conspiracy theories and witchhunters, are the kind of people who are good in doubting any evidence that goes against what they want to believe.
It's quite possible that in Ange's world the accident scenario has been elaborated even by specialists, yet some people refused to trust them and the thing just blew up in proportion. Take the WTC event if you want. No amount of specialist's testimonies will change anything about amateurs claiming "this was an inside job" and even a decade after tons of people aren't even interested in the evidence that it wasn't. Since in reality things cannot be proved 100%, there will always be place for such "theories".
If you think of Ange's world that way, and witchhunters that way, it does sound like it fits with Ryuukishi's whole moral in a much more positive light. Suppose for instance this is what Eva's diary contained, only explaining once again that it was an accident.
Witch-hunters would use it as evidence to say Eva tried to cover the truth, or claim that the diary is fake (what's Hachijou doing with it anyway?). Ange as she is in arc 8's end, probably understood that she wouldn't ever get any more evidence then this and just gave up trying to deny the obvious. Most likely then not there is not a single thing that would make witch-hunters stops speculating about information withheld on purpose and the such, Ange just understood exactly that.
To me that mostly is satisfying really.