User blog comment:Master Plaga/What makes SEELE think they have the right to choose our fate?/@comment-25322628-20150521041941

They're not interested in the fate of mankind, just their survival from the Third Impact that they set in motion after starting Second Impact. They want to be immortal and all-powerful, abandoning humanity in favor of self-preservation. Their plans were just to escape death, and they had the money and resources to achieve this feat, but the one thing they didn't possess was the blessing of the heavens they rejected or the authority of the gods to achieve this feat.