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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
The show was never about rewarding the good and punishing the bad. By the end of the show no one has clean hands. And in fact Kallen herself was no saint. What did you think she was doing with what she thought was poison gas?
If everyone got what they deserved, there would be a LOT more dead people. Indeed, the war would have kept going. That's the point; that peace is not compatible with revenge.
Kallen was given a new life. A new life that arguably, she didn't earn. No one earned it, because no one wanted peace. Lulu was the one who decided it was time to drop the issue of who needing to punish who.
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Another problem was that it didn't really even work out to that; it was more about Lelouch having a personal death wish, and in the process he undoubtedly took more people with him than there were casualties during his time as Zero. There were other paths towards peace, ones that would have likely amounted to less bloodshed all around.
As for Kallen and the gas canister, she didn't want to use it (she specifically calls it a bloodbath in episode 1). She wanted to get it out of Britannian hands so the latter would have one less weapon.
And to say no one's hands were clean entails a bit of false equivalency; some were dirtier than others, while others were cleaner by the converse. The problem in the end was that some of the former had happier endings, and for a few annoying contrivances at that. Relating a little more directly to Kallen, she should have never let the whole thing with Ohgi and Villetta slide. She should have brought up her complicitness with the OSI.