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Perfect conclusion. He proved the Frontman's cynical philosophy of humans being inherently selfish wrong and showed that good in humanity can still exist even in the more dire of circumstances like the hellhole of Squid Game. But that's not all, Gihun's last words, "We are not horses, we are humans. Humans are..." It wasn't finished and that's intentional. Horses are instinctive creatures that are used in wars and gambles, they run because they must. Squid Game is a game of chance and death. But are we purely instinctive creatures? No, but then what are we? It's to show that even though he showed good can still exist, we must not forget all the atrocities that mankind has committed which was shown throughout all of the series. Humans aren't collectively defined as good or bad, we just are. It can also be seen as a question left to be answered. What are humans? Some people will say "humanity still exists in some people", but what does that humanity even refer to? The people who created and run the games were human, the people who participated and killed were human. We use this term in light of compassion and kindness, but are all the atrocities not part of human nature too? It almost seemed like not even Gihun himself had an answer. He has seen all of it on that island. The greed, the cowardice, the lies, the sadism, but also, the kind, the compassionate, and the selfless. Humans can take on any form, and 'humanity' is ultimately an arbitrary term.
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