Kiritsugu has a dream, he wants to create a world where no one cryes. ←

This is not his whimsical imagination, but his increasingly firm ideal after recognizing the cruelty of reality.

Dreams alone cannot change reality, and hard work alone can also lead to dreams that cannot be realized.

Because the so-called "dream" is usually the opposite of a person's reality, an unrealistic and difficult to realize ideal, when a dream comes into reality, it becomes more beautiful, but it is also illusory, and it becomes more real, but it is also far away.

The secular world believes that children should have dreams, and it doesn’t matter if they are wild, because children are characterized by innocence and innocence; teenagers should have ideals, but it doesn’t matter if they are greater than reality, because teenagers are characterized by overconfidence, but adults must be realistic because adults shoulder social and family responsibilities and cannot be willful.

Therefore, maturity means learning to accept, compromise and give up. The so-called acceptance means adapting to an objective society that is not transferred by personal consciousness; the so-called compromise means not thinking that one's own ideas can be realized 100%, learning to communicate, discuss, lower conditions, and lower goals; while the so-called abandonment means giving up naive and stubborn ideas and looking at problems realistically with a mentality that focuses on success, failure, gains and losses.

Therefore, Kiritsugu is a contradiction as an adult who refuses to give up his ideals. On the one hand, he insists on his dreams than anyone else, but when he realizes that dreams are almost impossible to achieve, he falls into deep despair; on the other hand, in his actions to save the world as much as he can, he learns to think about problems in reality like an adult, and guides his behavior with a set of utilitarian ethics.

In order to save the majority, a few people were sacrificed. With the support of this creed, Kiritsugu always used the equal standards of life, no distinction between high and low, no distinction between old and young. He chose to save the majority without distinction, and killed the minority for this purpose, even if the minority was innocent.

These should belong to the two propositions in the category of political ethics, namely, whether the interests of a few people can be sacrificed for the interests of the majority? Can we make no mistakes for the purpose of justice? In Kiritsugu's tragedy, it is more of a question of personal conscience.

Kiritsugu gave up his ideal of becoming a righteous partner as a child - he learned to adapt to this extremely cruel world like an adult, and he transformed into Shura himself, starting to lower the conditions and lower his goals. Although he saved people, he did not want to save everyone, but began to give up necessary, and chose to save most people with the mentality of success, failure, and kill a few people at the cost.

But he still wants to create a world where no one cryes, and he will still be in pain for his blood... So you can imagine how violently this is a soul struggling and twisting!

"Justice" is an extremely subtle thing, because it is invisible and material, and it is just a concept that exists in human thinking. It can be very simple, like Superman protecting the earth is justice, and the monsters that invade the earth are evil; it can also be very complicated. For example, Rawls's masterpiece "Theory of Justice" not only did not put a stop to the academic debates about justice, but instead triggered greater debate in the academic community.

Justice - For those who have matured, it may feel ridiculous and childish, but when "fate-zero" shows all this with another look, it makes people have to think deeply.

Lin Luo is just one of He Chen's countless fans. When people grow up, they will get something and lose something. In his eyes, Kiritsugu is more like their shadow of "growing up with something that has been discarded by them" described by the porter master.

He said: "The young Kiritsugu naturally would not understand the meaning of the word "justice" in political science and ethics. Whether he had thoughts when he grew up, and people had no idea if the porter didn't write it, but his behavior since he killed his father touched the theoretical and practical scope of political ethics."

"So the complexity of Kiritsugu may be that he is a manifestation of a political concept. In "fate-zero", as a person opposite Kiritsugu, it is obvious that Kiritsugu is targeting Kiritsugu's human side, and Artoria is targeting Kiritsugu's manifestation of a political concept."

"As the legendary monarch of the ancient British kingdom, Saber was an idealized knight incarnation. She adhered to the knighthood and did things without making any means to achieve her goals, she was like ice and fire. Perhaps it was the dramatic conflict created by such opposing ideas. Kiritsugu and others chose Saber to become their lust. So although there were not many, the two people's positions were opposed and the contradictions of ideas became one of the main highlights of the work. The dialogue between the two people's few people is still a hot topic of controversy."

"Kiritsu believes that Saber's justice is pedantic and useless, and in Saber's opinion, Kiritsugu's unprincipled work is unforgivable. In fact, what Kiritsugu said is not unreasonable. Will Saber insist on the path of justice, and will not end up being betrayed by his subordinates and his country's demise? Although Kiritsugu's actions are cruel and ruthless, they will not cause everyone to be destroyed in the name of justice. If it comes from the perspective of taking into account the overall social situation of the country, Kiritsugu's behavior will naturally have its rationality, while Saber seems too ideal and naive."

"Politics is dirty, and Saber is a monarch of a country, as the political center and real power of a country, but is extremely holy, so to the point of lack of humanity, which is incredible. In contrast, although the Conqueror King Iskandal has the dream of an endless sea and is very humane, he will also use disgraceful means. From this point of view, it makes sense to say that Saber is not qualified to be a king."

"So back to the topic at the beginning, if Saber is the embodiment of the ideal of justice, then she, who suffered a tragic failure, isn't it a dream that is illuminated by reality and makes people feel that it is meaningless? Kiritsugu cannot accept Saber. Can't accept the self who has given up? Do you not bear to see her like this and be destined to be lost?"

Others asked him what he thought of Kirei. As a character in the story that always exists as the protagonist's opponent, and is the core of the Fourth Holy Grail War and the Fifth Holy Grail War. Like Kiritsugu, he was controversial, and their bodies were full of mysterious and contradictory colors.

Lin Luo thought for a while and replied: "If Kiritsugu's heart is like an angel, then Kiritsugu's heart is like a devil. Kiritsugu longs for a world where no one crys, and he will also suffer when he sees others' pain; Kiritsugu's nature uses other people's pain as the source of his own happiness, so the opposition between Kiritsugu and Kiri is essentially different from Saber - because he and Saber have the same feelings of compassion and yearning for a beautiful world, but the path he chose is different, while he and Kiritsugu are different in nature, even though they are indecisive and unyielding."

People may be descendants of angels and devils, and there are good and evil in their hearts, but this is a more literary saying.

Good and evil are human value judgments, and values ​​are different in ancient and modern times, so some people may just be thoughts and behaviors, and good and evil are different. However, humans are social animals, and what is reflected in humans usually reflects not nature but social nature. It can be said that almost no people in society are born and are shaped by society.

"So we can see that although Kirei is extremely evil by nature, she has always demanded herself by social standards and lived a life of self-restraint and diligence. Although she knows her son, her father cannot see through him. Kirei himself has become his opposite and suppressed his nature everywhere, making him not know what kind of person he is, what he longs for, and the alienation of human nature can be seen from this."

"What about Kiritsugu? Similarly, after he was kind by nature, he became a completely opposite person to his nature after realizing the cruelty of reality. Therefore, in the ending of "fate-zero", Kiritsugu, who was looking forward to restoring himself, longing for redemption, and walking into the fire to save people, was a meaningful comparison, because the two men speculated that the other party had been so long and had sacrificed their lives to fight each other, and finally they really met, but found that they were not interested in the other party."

"This shows that society can arrange two people who are not interested in each other as enemies of fate. Of course, this also includes people who originally like each other, such as Saber and Lancer. Two heroes full of chivalrous spirits cherish each other. The fight is purely their own masters. As for Kiritsugu and Kirei, it is purely fate that the latter blocks the former's path and the deeply contradictory former hooks arouse the latter's great interest."

"In many cases, there are many things that are not something that people are willing to do but are forced by the situation, but gradually they will get used to and adapt. This can be said to be the self-alienation of people or the socialization of people. However, with the insignificance of individual power, if you want to survive better in society, isn't such sacrifice the price of happiness?"

Kiritsugu and Saber are two people who are unwilling to give up their ideals, but the way they choose to achieve their ideals is very different. The subtle thing is that the endings are the same.

Speaking of which, Saber and Kiritsugu reflect the two sides of fraternity, the idealized side in the mind, and the difficult-to-implement side in reality. Kirei is a silhouette of fate, reflecting the cold, empty, and even meaningless fate.

Ideals ultimately succumbed to reality and destiny. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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