[and it's Anna's turn to listen, and when Eren drops that g-word, she puffs out some air through her nose and grimly smirks.]

Enough of my best friends say their past selves committed genocide and I'm gonna stop being surprised by it. [maybe not the time to react like this, but, well.]

We were faced with... impossible choices. Things that one person couldn't be asked to decide on their own. We did what we did because the alternative was unacceptable. [she's talked with herself, with others about this a lot.] A2 killed people to protect them from the logic virus. She saw what happened to her friends when that thing took over their circuits. Giving them a quick death was easier and faster than watching them fight against the people they cared about until they burned themselves out or... [she puts a hand to her chest, where her heart would be, and doesn't finish that sentence. and she shakes her head, like she'd gotten lost in her own world, her own memories, and like she'd forgotten Eren was even there.]

The point is that even if we are them, nobody's asking us to do what they did. We're what would happen if they never had to make impossible choices.