2012-10-21, 14:02 | Link #1161 | |
Sensei, aishite imasu
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Considering that people deemed incurable are imprisoned rather than executed, the Dominator going into kill mode is probably more of a force escalation in response to a suspect being desperate enough to kill, rather than a fiat "we kill crazy people". The victim in episode 1 only got a kill authorization after she got away, and started thinking about trying to torch people with the lighter. Though really. The biggest problem in the way this scenario went down seems to be the fact that law enforcement uses state sanctioned sociopaths to hunt down criminals, and the automatic processes they use to ensure they only go after criminals are somewhat limited. It shouldn't be surprising that people like that would be as ruthless as possible within the confines the system allowed them. That's probably why Enforcers work with inspectors, to keep them from going on killing sprees when it's not appropriate.
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2012-10-21, 14:13 | Link #1162 | |
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If she cared about status, wealth, etc she would have gone into the other more highly coveted career paths. Anyhow, Akane's character design... seems like it is influenced by some 1990s anime. Anyhow, we did get some crazy faces from Akane. This supposed to be a 20+ episode anime, right? Who's the main antagonist? Would people with multiple personalities be able to cheat the system? How about people who feel no remorse for doing bad things? |
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2012-10-21, 14:22 | Link #1163 | |
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I think the antagonist in this kinda setup would be either some criminal group that figured out a way to get their Psycho-Pass's to read as normal through physical tampering, or a corrupt group of enforcers. The former would have a very easy time moving about undetected in a system primarily devoted to fighting crime by monitoring peoples Psycoh-pass, and the latter being a state sanctioned squad of sociopaths have all sorts of ways they could do diabolical things.
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2012-10-21, 14:34 | Link #1165 | |
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Then because the Enforcers are deemed as corrupt by the system, normal people wouldn't want to get near them or want to become law enforcers, causing a shortage of staff as mentioned at the beginning of the first episode. It's a vicious cycle. |
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2012-10-21, 14:36 | Link #1166 |
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But that's not what apathetic people do. If she was apathetic, she'd have gone witht he flow of "choosing whatever everyone wants". That she made such an unconventional choice shows she believes in the system. She may not care about policework as such, but she chose her path according to what was best for society according to the system, rather than what would be easier, more comfortable for her.
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2012-10-21, 14:43 | Link #1167 | |
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Using that as a reference, it's crystal clear her suit is real since : there was no spark at all + it can get wet + there was no point in Ginoza giving her an uniform if she can just go holo-clothing all the way. Also during this episode, Masaoka as well as Karanomori and Kunizuka demonstrated that their clothes can be taken off, which also doesn't make sense in so many ways if it's just hologram Well, to be blunt this isn't the first time an anime used things like this. There was also Mnemosyne, but with that one it's a lot harder to figure out if it's your average holographic clothing or teleported clothing or solid holographic clothing or whatever.
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2012-10-21, 14:58 | Link #1169 | |
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This is society where your psychological profile is more important than your actual work ethic, accomplishments, and productivity. One of her friends wants to get ahead but she has hit a brick wall, she's not allowed to be anything more than a menial job. She likes her job but wants something more, yet she's not allowed to pursue her dream. She's grown up being told she's special, she has a great psycho pass but she doesn't seem to believe it herself and she doesn't seem to particularly care to get ahead. She appears to be the type of person that would have been content being labeled as someone of lesser potential and working a quiet job. She's trying to find out if she really deserves her status because she seems like she doesn't know if she really does care. Not a particularly passionate person, it appears. |
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2012-10-21, 15:10 | Link #1170 |
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Akane wasn't being apathetic. She was being selfless.
Akane saw that there was one job that she and she alone scored an "A" for, and so she basically thought, "All those other jobs will get A-list people even if I don't sign up for them, so I'll be the most helpful I can be to my society by making sure that law enforcement gets an A-list person as well". Akane wasn't apathetic in Episode 2 so much as she was simply a bit depressed. She was feeling useless when she wanted to be useful. It's not that she's uncaring, but quite the opposite - She's depressed because she does care, and she's afraid she won't make a difference.
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2012-10-21, 15:11 | Link #1171 |
Sensei, aishite imasu
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Where did she say that it was because she didn't want to compete with other people? It seemed like it had more to do with her thinking there was something significant about how she was the most competent person to this position by a huge margin. I'm not sure you can ascribe that as her wanting to not want to compete with people.
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2012-10-21, 15:19 | Link #1173 | |
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2012-10-21, 15:21 | Link #1174 | |
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You don't need to have depression to be depressed. |
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2012-10-21, 16:10 | Link #1176 | |
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What she experienced in ep2 was a small crisis of faith. |
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2012-10-21, 16:42 | Link #1177 | |
Sensei, aishite imasu
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Inspectors can do their job because they have incredible mental resilience and principles to engage in this kind of work without being * contaminated* with high mental trauma. Enforcers are the primary trigger men since they're the ones ruthless and disciplined enough to hunt down people with high crime coefficients, and to kill them if required. If Akane could detach herself why was she upset all throughout episode 2?
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2012-10-21, 16:56 | Link #1179 | |
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You picked the WRONG job if that's the case.
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2012-10-21, 17:02 | Link #1180 |
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That's how I see her. She seems like a pretty straightforward and idealistic (naive?) character. She chose that job because this is where she would be the most useful, since there were no other candidates who were as suited to this job as she was.
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