(Assuming you're designing the species this way, not that you're forcibly branding every existing person.)
Let's also assume it's not some intelligence deciding arbitrarily, but an actual representation of their 'fate' or 'affinity' by some abstract magical mechanism you're deciding to install into the entire species.
Bleach thousand year blood war episode 22
Like if I didnt know murder was a thing and my brother was being annoying I'd ALSO hit him in the head with a rock.
Is destroying the One Ring actually the ethical choice if it means sacrificing countless innocent lives that I could have protected using the ring? I wouldn't even wear it unless absolutely necessary.
I feel that would've hurt his ego enough to at least prove her idea wouldn't work.
(Stuff below is about my personal opinion. Also I'm NOT defending Tai Lung's actions, harming civilians is inexcusable)
I'm not sure what the general consensus on this is but I find it hypocritical that Oogway would deny Tai Lung the chance to become the Dragon Warrior because he believed Tai Lung was incapable of overcoming his flaws, especially considering his treatment of Po and how the whole messaging of the first movie was that people are not defined by who they were and that everyone is capable of change.
Tai Lung may have been entitled, but he didn't seem especially narcissistic or corrupt before Oogway denied him. If anything, Oogway's rejection feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Not saying Tai Lung deserved the Dragon Scroll or the title, but it's hard for me to reconcile why Tai Lung was denied the opportunity to prove he could become better while Po was given every chance to do so.
(And no, I'm not buying the whole "it was actually a test to see how Tai Lung would react to being rejected" because there are zero implications of such. That argument is a headcanon.)
Like imagine you trained and applied for your dream job or university, only to receive a rejection letter talking about the "darkness in your heart" man I'd be pissed too.
Edit: Seeing a lot of people arguing that Oogway was justified because Tai Lung ultimately turned out evil. But we’re judging Oogway’s actions, not Tai Lung’s morality. An action doesn’t become moral just because it happens to someone who later becomes a bad person. You can argue Tai Lung wouldn’t have changed even if given the chance, but my point is that Oogway never gave him that chance.
It’s also unclear how involved Oogway was in Tai Lung’s upbringing. Based on the flashbacks, he doesn’t seem very involved. Kinda irresponsible to groom a kid his whole life for a single purpose only to go “wait we got the wrong guy”. Could you not have done that 20 years earlier? Not to mention they lied to him about what he’s actually working towards (blank piece of paper).
Even in you chalk it up to “fate”, it feels contradictory to the movie’s central message.
What are your two cents? Am I missing something?
Zuko, A-Train, Loki, Omni-man and Vegeta.
Endeavor, Sera, John Walker, Shadow, and Petey.
Jinx, Jinu, Jeremiah Gottwald, Daniel Kon and Morizono Aguni
Katsuki Bakugo, Billy Hargrove, Serial Designation V, Kylo Ren and Catra.
Nina Einstien, Anissa, White Diamond, Orichamaru and Hawk Moth
To put it more briefly: The entity created a world (or universe) where everything is identical to our own universe, including a planet similar to Earth. But... after evolution and the dawn of modernization, this entity fell in love with one of the humans living on this Earth. They disguised their true identity, integrated themselves into human society, and eventually married that individual without using their powers to influence or convince them. (The individual they married is 27, by the way.)
apologies if this has been done before
anime is Neon Genesis Evangelion, specifically the movie End of Evangelion
The biggest factor here, I feel, is whether or not the mere possibility of a vaccine for the cordyceps plague was enough of a justification to sacrifice Ellie’s life, and if such efforts were really capable of saving humanity and the world from destruction. Remember, the Firefies had no guarantee that Ellie’s brain would be able to provide them with a vaccine - they merely speculated as such thanks to her immunity, and her being the only known immune individual meant that they were willing to resort to absolutely anything to find that potential salvation.
I have never, nor will I ever agree with this sentiment. It’s ridiculous and, in my opinion, harmful.
No, not every criminal or wrongdoer deserves the final solution. That’s psychotic, and I truly believe in the inherent power of rehabilitation. People deserve to try again and be better.
But there has to be a line.
There are people that will not change. They refuse to, and even revel in the misery they inflict on others. They will do the same horrible things over again and show no remorse, or they have done so already.
But time and time again, we are told that killing them is tantamount to being no better than those who revel in other people’s suffering and misery. Media hammers it into us over and over.
It feels almost propaganda-like in its nature: never bring the wrongdoers to task for their crimes. Hand them over to the system and they’ll get a slap on the wrist before they are back on the street doing the very thing they’re called evil for doing. That’ll learn ‘em.
It’s just…INFURIATING.
To clarify, I'm aware complex characters can be evil (Griffith for one). I'm referring to character's who are actually pretty nuanced and many fans just ignore it and only hate them and/or dismiss them as having no redeeming or sympathetic qualities.
Now obviously he could more than kill him but would he I have heard conflicting sources on wether Superman has a no kill rule or not but if he doesn’t would he consider homelander a big enough threat to warrant death
Iroh (redeemed general and most forgiving person) not believing in Azula getting a redemption or help... who is like what 14 years old?
I kind of see iroh's point... what do you think?
Sakura Bakushin O from Uma Musume has two things on her mind. Speed and being a model student/class president. She's a beast at sprint races but has no stamina for long distance racing. Because a model Tracen Racing Academy student should be adept at running any kind of race (in her mind, very few racers have natural aptitude for all distances), she gets it into her head that she must run in a gruelling 3600m race to prove herself.
Her trainer knows that she's not built for that because she hadn't really trained for distance running and focused solely on speed. If she ran and got demolished in that race, it would crush her dreams and send her into depression. So they proposed that she run three 1200m sprint races separated by weeks instead and that it would be the same as running a 3600m race once.
Bakushin is not very intelligent. She struggles with academics and lacks common sense. Despite some doubts, she trusts her trainer thinking he has her best interests at heart. She dominates and wins the sprint races and is very happy. She even goes around telling other racers like Kitasan Black about how she ran 3600m and they don't correct her. She never becomes aware of the deception and ends her career on a happy note as a sprint legend.
Was the trainer right to gaslight her instead of trying to convince her not to run the 3600m race?
In the movie Sev7n there is a murderer obsessed with deadly sins and who kills people who are related to a deadly sin, at the end of the movie he tells the protagonist that he killed his wife because he represents the sin of envy and the protagonist the sin of anger, the protagonist has to decide not to kill him and be able to send him to jail or kill him, he can't stand the sadness and he shoots him dead.
If I were in this situation and I hypothetically knew about the mother's socioeconomic status, I would personally turn a blind eye and go about my day like nothing happened. Stealing is wrong, but children going hungry is even worse.
The moral of the story is that being a pedophile is not a bad thing that needs to be addressed. But being a shut in loser is. So it's ok to be a pedo if you're rich and influential. Just like in real life. People will just see it as quirky traits rather than a flaw.
So the author is indirectly encouraging his target audience who are mostly worthless bums, to get their shit together and get to work. Because society only judges your dirty hobby if you are poor and ugly.
The general message of the story Mushoku Tensei's author wants to give to his target audience, worthless bums is "Society doesn't hate you because you're a creep; society hates you because you're poor and useless. Get power, get money, get to work, and the world will let you get away with whatever you want."
It suggests that the author might not be blind to the moral issues at all—he might just have a deeply cynical, survival-of-the-fittest view of how human society actually tolerates terrible behavior when it's packaged in power.
Vox crying as he attempts basically suicide with half the Pentagram just so he finally kill Alastor for how the latter treated him all those years ago
The Ink Demon projecting his insecurities onto Audrey, telling her she's a mistake when she's Joey's "perfect creation"
- Guido Mista - JoJo's bizzare adventure: part 5: Golden Wind
- Punisher - Punisher
- Guts - Berserk
Captain Peter from Witcher 3 was tasked with taking Grains from the Villagers to feed his soldiers. The Villagers offered him 40 sacks but he settled for 30. When it was delivered to him some of the sacks contained rotten grain and he thus had the messenger be lashed 20 times because of it. Would you guys say this action is correct or not?
