Jujutsu Kaisen Episode 11
Added 2022-10-25 14:59:01 +0000 UTC
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(@Ninja Kuma) Yup, shit be wack fo rizzle.
Byakkoya
2022-10-26 04:23:35 +0000 UTCWhen you think of it that way, the world makes a tad more sense, huh?
Monokuma
2022-10-26 04:15:32 +0000 UTC(@Ninja Kuma) People don't think about how their actions effect others because their worlds are internal, and because they only truly value themselves and what they understand. A person can only rely on others' outward projections of themselves and their own imaginations to understand others especially strangers, the connection is barely there. It's easy for us to care about loved ones and friends, people who make us happy and who we make happy, because we understand them on a greater level and can therefore more easily empathize with them. The Outgroup though? Opposing ideologies? Opposing lifestyles? Opposing identities? Total strangers? People tend to listen to their fears there, if not just the more common total indifference. Bullies and Abusers tend to either not be fully aware of the harm they're doing, or simply just not care because the ones being effected are so far removed from them that what little amount of empathy it would take to stop them just doesn't exist. These people aren't incapable of feeling for others, if you'd hurt someone close to them they'd be just as upset as any other person, but if you aren't one of the people they're close to there's no concern to be had for you. Of course any decent person knows how messed up this is and would reject instinct based behavior like that in favor of a more civilized "Respect others unless they disrespect you" mentality, though if all humans were civilized our societies wouldn't be in the messes they're in today, so I guess expecting that ground level of humanity from others is a tad naive huh? Kinda fucked when you think about it.
Byakkoya
2022-10-26 04:02:15 +0000 UTC(@RemnantRyku) Fair point. Junpei's uncertainty here definitely makes his retaliation questionable. This particular situation is less "fighting back" and more "lashing out in despair and rage", though had the story been different and Junpei's bullies really were the ones to blame rather than a clever scapegoat then I'd be 100% supportive of him going totally apeshit here.
Byakkoya
2022-10-26 03:40:41 +0000 UTCPeople like to tell themselves their actions are free from consequence, the bible teaches "beware the wrath of a patient man" for a reason. Even science agrees, "every action has an equal but opposite reaction", or some like to think of it as Karma. If you keep doing others harm, don't cry when one of them harms you back. You reap what you sow.
Monokuma
2022-10-26 03:24:41 +0000 UTCLife is simply unfair, isn't it?
Monokuma
2022-10-26 03:22:36 +0000 UTCUnderstandable. There's always another choice, another way to change, though. If the idea of "an eye for an eye" should be taken in a literal sense like you suggest for revenge, then again, Junpei is wrong. His mother's been murdered, so now he has all the right to kill his bullies? Even though he doesn't know whether it was or wasn't one or all of them who killed her? You see, now Junpei's righteous revenge becomes questionable, and to everyone else he's the villain for killing a bunch of simple bullies. He said it himself, he's killing that student whether or not he murdered his mother, simply because he hates him for being a bully towards him. Bad actions can be punished without such drastic means. It might not feel like the troublemakers are getting severely punished and instead getting a slap on the wrist, but if it works then it should be fair. The mindset in which you should act in revenge differs for everyone. I don't think yours would be the best way for Junpei. Of course, that's just one of my opinions, because I've already asked "why" plenty of times. I can willingly always choose to do nothing and let him do it.
RemnantRyku
2022-10-26 01:52:41 +0000 UTCI've always understood the heart and soul being two separate things. Heart being similar to that of your mind, and the soul that of your body. In other words, the heart and soul being spiritual aspects, and the mind and body more physical. But damn, they did the mother dirty to kill her off like that.
RemnantRyku
2022-10-26 01:27:08 +0000 UTCSee, this is what I was talking about on the last post. Junpei's finally getting back at someone who should have had their ego checked a long ass time ago and here comes righteous Mr. Protagonist to interrupt the fun (not that I dislike Yuji, I'm just saying). I get that no author is going to promote vengeance or murder or whatever to their audience, since it goes against our collectively held values as a society and whatnot (They would be cancelled for it, figuratively and literally), but still. At a certain point you got to stop thinking in "No no it's just wrong" and ask yourself "WHY?". Why is it wrong to get back at someone for tormenting you? If we are to treat others as we expect to be treated by others, then are we not justified in giving what we receive? If someone hurts me for no justifiable reason why should I not respond in kind? How can punishing a malicious act against one's self be condemned when those with the power and authority to act on it without violating society's arbitrary moral code won't do a god damn thing? The only situation where I condemn revenge is one in which the target of said revenge has thoroughly changed for the better and wont repeat their failures. A high school bully surrounded by ignorant kids who know nothing of his true nature sees no motivation to change, and likely hasn't even thought about how their actions effect those around them. If you don't AT LEAST give the little bitch a good scare to humble them they'll never grow up and will mature with a bully's mentality, between that and giving them the ol' woodchipper now? Easy choice.
Byakkoya
2022-10-25 18:36:47 +0000 UTC
