Someone pointed out that the people of the TVA already knew, that they killed a bunch of innocent people, when they pruned timelines, let alone the variants they got rid off separately. But it wasn’t until they realised, that they themselves also variants, that they started to care.
And I think that’s because, up until that point, they didn’t see variants or the people on those “inferior“ timelines as equal beings to themselves.
They dehumanised them.
They didn’t care about the Variants dying, because for them they‘re just the left overs of a fucked up timeline. And their job is to remove those left overs and fucked up timelines. They didn’t think about it. That‘s what they believe & what the TVA teaches them as well.
But then they suddenly find out, that all of them are Variants too.
And it makes them feel weird. Guilty. Maybe even sick. Because that means every single Variant they pruned, every being on every single not-sacred-timeline they pruned, was a person.
Just like them.
Not inferior but equal.
And suddenly pruning turns into killing.
