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Originally Posted by Joe_fh
Point is she didn't want it to help people at that point. She was just being slefish - every person is at some point. Still I'm not saying it's wrong to be selfish since that's not really possible but she decided to to something stupid dangerous and didn't even consider the consequences which is wrong.
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She might have done. i don't see why not. Just because she was happy that she had an ability that couldn't be useful
yet, does not mean it was her only reason.
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Also from a completely different point of view the fact that she tries to help might not be because she is a good hearted person but because she is a level 0 and the only way to show she is capable of doing something is by helping others. It sounds logical and is as likely as everything else.
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True, but if I ever judged someone, then I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt. I mean come on. You said that one of her friends ought to die to teach her a lesson. Now that's a tad bit extreme when you consider your judgement rests on subjective premises, right?
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My point was that by living alone all this time she should be more mature for a person her age. This has more to do with the decision she made.
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Pehrpas in some aspects she might have been, but i see no correlation between living alone and being able to resisting social influences. I don't think it applies in this case.
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And my other point was that by living in AC for all this time and being a level 0 all this time should have helped her come in terms with the fact she is a level 0. Even if that feeling isn't completely gone she should still have moved forward.
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I think you're greatly underestimating the powers of social influences. I mean conformity and social norms is probably the biggest factor in shaping our beliefs. Even if you are aware of them they're extremely difficult to get rid of. She could have moved on. But I think that's expected far too much. The fact that she lived there for a long time doesn't mean anything if she was a child the whole time.
Also bear in mind the culture. I think you're presenting very Individualistic morals whilst Japan is known for being more Collectivist. And there is a correlation between Collectivist societies and more conformity:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/con...l~jumptype=rss
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Background character infromation helps build a character thus it's important for character development. So I do believe it was that kind of information. It was there to give us a better understanding of Saten's character.
And saying mommy while you're scared isn't really something strange that needs further explanation.
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It didn't really give us any info other than the fact that she had a very supportive mother that she loves very much. It doesn't sound like something that needs to be repeated like Misaka did. If it wasn't something that had any affect on why Saten did what she did, then why did the author make Misaka talk about it again?
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Well it all depends on the point of view and the person since we've seen many points of view on levels in AC. Mine is that it shouldn't but every person has one. That however again doesn't jsutify what she did which is the whole point of all this. As I said I felt sympathy towards Saten for being a level 0 and having her dreams shatered as a fellow human being but not for what she did.
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Haven't we only seen two? And the other one was Uiharu having an emotional conversation with a distressed Saten, whilst the other was shown quite frequentl in both Railgun and Index. Anyway, I'll reiterate that i'm not trying to justify her actions, but simply show that we can't completely condemn her either.