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Originally Posted by Reckoner
I don't think episode 17 proved that the system is bad. In fact you could say it's the ultimate method of judgement and through adding more and more brains, it will achieve perfection.
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the brain thing in fact is more scenic than anything, if they weren't brains in flasks they would be just a bunch of people secretly governing a nation(and selected with a specific method aimed to better their performance), something very far from being uncommon in the collective imagination and fictions
and them being a computer, flesh people or brains change nothing about their results, which are not perfect but also are far from being totally wrong
more than brains, they're more like a bunch of thermometers who measure the human stress, and except the exceptions like makishima and where people try to hack the system, they're quite correct, and continuosly try to better their results (again taking others brains is more scenic than needed, they could just do a brain scan to the people they can't understand to complete themselfes)
them, or some of them(we don't know if touma's god complex was common in the hivemind or just his way to see it), thinking to be overpowered/aboveothers would be bad if it influenced their results/performance, but since we didn't got showed cases like that, that's not the case for now
like makishima said, they're cogs of a system, they do their work
they/brains could be considered victims of the system themselfes
or the first ones to beneficiate from it, in a normal society where they would be shunned and isolated, as part of the sibyl they're having an use/meaning, they sort of complete each other, and even if the first thing someone mistreated would do is trying to hurt/taking revenge on society they're instead trying(with their means) to help it
the real fault of the sibyl is that it would not be needed if society was more accepting and peaceful, sibyl sort of remove/cover the problems while not resolving them (not like society would, it takes a lot fo time/work anyway)
an other possible problem is that sibyl is good as measurement tool, not so good as decision making structure
the ideal would be having sibyl as measurement tool, and someone like akane as decision making role
since a measurement tool can only measure what already happened, while a decision making role has do decide what is the best route to follow