I imagine where Lelouch came from in this episode besides his revenge for Shirely was that "The world will be better off without people like Rolo."
Lelouch does things that he thinks will keep himself, his friends, and Nunnally safe. When Rolo nixxed Shirely, it shook that whole foundation (and possibly false sense of security) around him. He knew that those people were just like Rolo and would just cause more misery and be potential enemies in the future, and therefore removed them from play.
He still killed people, and it's wrong. However he has killed people on a large scale before. The Britannian Army at Towkow, the people at Narita. This is nothing new to his character, however he will have to explain why he killed children.
Of course there was always the possibility that they wouldn't have turned out like Rolo - but was it worth the risk? Lelouch wouldn't want to have that risk out there and let things like Shirely's death happen again.
It doesn't make up for the fact of killing children, but those were most likely his reasons outside of revenge.
and I've been trying to keep from making Anakin jokes but :'[
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Lelouch does things that he thinks will keep himself, his friends, and Nunnally safe. When Rolo nixxed Shirely, it shook that whole foundation (and possibly false sense of security) around him. He knew that those people were just like Rolo and would just cause more misery and be potential enemies in the future, and therefore removed them from play.
He still killed people, and it's wrong. However he has killed people on a large scale before. The Britannian Army at Towkow, the people at Narita. This is nothing new to his character, however he will have to explain why he killed children.
Of course there was always the possibility that they wouldn't have turned out like Rolo - but was it worth the risk? Lelouch wouldn't want to have that risk out there and let things like Shirely's death happen again.
It doesn't make up for the fact of killing children, but those were most likely his reasons outside of revenge.
and I've been trying to keep from making Anakin jokes but :'[