Postby JD » Thu Aug 11, 2022 5:15 pm
hng's video has spoilers for MGSV but the main arguments it makes are as follows:
- Big Boss never actually employed child soldiers. He did keep war orphans, which he planned to train into soldiers, which he would use in other wars, which would create more war orphans for him to recruit. He didn't specifically field child soldiers, he just thought about it, and planned to wage continuous war in order to create a world where soldiers like him were always relevant.
- Big Boss did allow the use of torture, but the video argues that it was justified as part of the greater good, even though torture didn't uncover any useful information, and was mainly carried out because Ocelot likes torture and Miller was paranoid.
- He did kidnap a scientist to work on his Metal Gear project, but that's fine because he needed him as hostage anyway to prevent the UN from just bombing his rogue nuclear compound, so it's self-defence.
- Big Boss did steal nukes from other countries which were decomissioning them, with the goal of becoming a rogue nuclear power himself. This is justified because it's better than corrupt officials selling off those nukes to other, less scrupulous rogue nuclear powers.