PSYCHO PASS 19 — Walking the Line

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I don’t want him to cross the line from latent criminal to murderer.

This seems a rather innocuous statement. But in the world of Psycho Pass, it’s a revolutionary observation. Being labelled a latent criminal is different from being a murderer. Yet the world of Psycho Pass refuses to differentiate between the two. The system treats latent criminals as criminals, who need to be punished regardless of whether they have yet committed a crime. Continue reading PSYCHO PASS 19 — Walking the Line

Shin Sekai Yori 21 — The War of Liberation

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Aside from their violence and abduction of infants (a pretty big aside) I have to sympathize with the Queerats. The humans have been effectively using them as slaves. Now the tables are turned, with their infants born into slave labor, and they don’t like it.

When they meet the older Queerat underground, Satoru’s words betray some huge chutzpah. Satoru argues that Squealer doesn’t care about whether some of his soldiers die. Remember just a few episodes ago when Saki was daydreaming while she watched the Queerat armies slaughter each other? Yeah, they’re going to be convinced now that the humans give a crap whether they live or die.

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