>>280395521Literally Instrumentality and the subsumption of all individually.
In contrast, Schneizel and the Sword of Damocles would have enforced a static peace at any cost.
Lelouch explicitly rejected both of these worldviews. He came to see conflict as the natural culmination of earnestly held competing desires from people, and he didn't want to stifle that innate part of humanity that yearns for self-determinism and hope for something greater. However, he left the idea of Zero as the vigilante who will enforce guardrails to make sure nothing goes too off-kilter.