Dr. Shen called, he says he's hurt that you would equate his role to Gendō's when the obvious parallel with Ethical Vacuum Vahlen is there for the taking.

>(The road not taken, at least by anything I've read: it's all on the
>adults -- Misato, Maya, and maybe also Ritsuko and Kaji -- to figure
>out that Gendō/SEELE's plan is all kinds of bad for humanity and put
>a stop to it.

Well, that's presumably why he surrounded himself with underlings who can, for the most part, just barely keep out of their own way.

--G.
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