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God, I don't mean to bash the summer lineup, but the fall season is shaping up to be such an embarrassment of riches.
Urobuchi likes to make his more unstable villains just relatable and sympathetic enough to make them uncomfortable, while keeping them monstrous enough to be threatening. Who doesn't go through times in their life when to some degree, we just want to keep our heads down, and hope polite society can't tell what we're really thinking? Extend that feeling to a dangerous person, and suddenly you have the whole reason the psycho-pass system exists, as well as the argument for why someone might argue that it shouldn't.
I don't think it's entirely coincidental that in the cases of both of the people brought to "justice" by the dominator, fear of the punishment for latent criminality was the catalyst to turn them imminently dangerous.
Also of note, Akane's sympathetic approach to handling the victim was first responsible for escalating the apprehension to the point where it went out of control, but she was then able to forcefully use the same approach to deescalate the threat when the others were ready to destroy the target. Was she right or wrong? Yes and yes. No easy answer.
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