[Kaworu repeats it back to Hector not as an actual question but as the obvious staging of a rhetorical. A rhetorical he's about to answer for him.]
It's because the human ego is so fragile. Lilim needs others like it to survive, but it will also hurt itself because of the barriers that separate individuals... that is why humans must lie to each other, and to themselves, in order to coexist with each other.
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[Kaworu repeats it back to Hector not as an actual question but as the obvious staging of a rhetorical. A rhetorical he's about to answer for him.]
It's because the human ego is so fragile. Lilim needs others like it to survive, but it will also hurt itself because of the barriers that separate individuals... that is why humans must lie to each other, and to themselves, in order to coexist with each other.
[See? He's not so stupid, Hector.]