Hmmmm.... I beg to differ with Kyubey. That little fucker knows what it's doing, even when you account for Blue and Orange Morality.
Recall in my stream of consciousnesses notes, that Kyubey uses the excuse that someday humanity will ascend to the stars, and wouldn't it be nice if the universe was preserved in its current state for them to enjoy it? But here's the thing: Even if Kyubey doesn't understand why what it does to these girls is so horrifying, it does know that it is, nonetheless, horrifying to them.
And there's your litmus test: EITHER Kyubey refuses to change the way the collectors do things because it feels that eventually Humanity is gonna come around on the matter, OR it's lying through its teeth on the matter.
The thing is that Kyubey saying that means one of two things: 1) They are completely disregarding human history and the fact that our history has a tendency to repeat itself; OR, 2) It knows that this will go over about as well as a lead balloon and there's likely to be a fuck-off huge interstellar war once Humanity gets off world and goes interstellar.
Scenario 1) is very unlikely because even with Blue and Orange Morality taken into account, the Collectors aren't so stupid as to not recognize a pattern. Which means that - Hello there, Occam's Razor! - they're expecting Scenario 2) and have every intention of either crippling or destroying humanity in order to satiate their needs before they even have a chance to do anything about it.
This is also supported when we see, in the flashbacks depicting the end of one of Homura's many time loops, where Madoka has become a Witch so powerful that she's going to destroy the Earth. Kyubey could honestly care less about the matter - it's quota for energy collection on Earth has been fulfilled, and therefore humanity's plight is of no concern at all.
So, I don't believe that Kyubey and The Collectors is going to be anything other than a major threat. So long as it's Civilization is unmolested, it will do as it see fit in order to secure sources of energy for them to exploit. And when you have that kind of amoral ruthlessness running around? I think even Salem is going to take pause and carefully consider The Collector's place in her plots, because that's a piece that cannot be emotionally manipulated - if it's in their best interests to turn against her, then they'll do it, no questions asked.
Recall in my stream of consciousnesses notes, that Kyubey uses the excuse that someday humanity will ascend to the stars, and wouldn't it be nice if the universe was preserved in its current state for them to enjoy it? But here's the thing: Even if Kyubey doesn't understand why what it does to these girls is so horrifying, it does know that it is, nonetheless, horrifying to them.
And there's your litmus test: EITHER Kyubey refuses to change the way the collectors do things because it feels that eventually Humanity is gonna come around on the matter, OR it's lying through its teeth on the matter.
The thing is that Kyubey saying that means one of two things: 1) They are completely disregarding human history and the fact that our history has a tendency to repeat itself; OR, 2) It knows that this will go over about as well as a lead balloon and there's likely to be a fuck-off huge interstellar war once Humanity gets off world and goes interstellar.
Scenario 1) is very unlikely because even with Blue and Orange Morality taken into account, the Collectors aren't so stupid as to not recognize a pattern. Which means that - Hello there, Occam's Razor! - they're expecting Scenario 2) and have every intention of either crippling or destroying humanity in order to satiate their needs before they even have a chance to do anything about it.
This is also supported when we see, in the flashbacks depicting the end of one of Homura's many time loops, where Madoka has become a Witch so powerful that she's going to destroy the Earth. Kyubey could honestly care less about the matter - it's quota for energy collection on Earth has been fulfilled, and therefore humanity's plight is of no concern at all.
So, I don't believe that Kyubey and The Collectors is going to be anything other than a major threat. So long as it's Civilization is unmolested, it will do as it see fit in order to secure sources of energy for them to exploit. And when you have that kind of amoral ruthlessness running around? I think even Salem is going to take pause and carefully consider The Collector's place in her plots, because that's a piece that cannot be emotionally manipulated - if it's in their best interests to turn against her, then they'll do it, no questions asked.