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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
A bunch of arguing Bureaucrats sped up are still only a bunch of arguing bureaucrats. In the end it still only boiled down to a private invitation-only club of 250 people. It doesn't matter how it tries to sell itself as being good at what it does, the fact that it is just a cybernetic version of your old Knights of the Round Table means it is downright ordinary.
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Except it isn't like this. The Sibyl System isn't an ordinary political body.
Remember how Makishima brought up Gulliver's Travels and Balnibarbi's doctor? The doctor came up with a way for politicians with conflicting opinions to reconcile with one another, which is to cut people's brains in half and stick them together. "Once that is done successfully they could 'produce that moderation as well as regularity of thinking.'"
Though there is a bit of mocking derision in what Makishima is getting at (It's not an attractive fate for the people involved), the point is that this is like a collective conscience of individuals. All their expertise, knowledge, and wisdom is melded together to create a single entity which possesses greater thought capacity than any lone individual. Every additional person who is added into the system only makes Sibyl more perfect, moreso if that given person is unique enough such that Sibyl cannot already think like that individual.
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Originally Posted by Roger Rambo
Really. How much more blatant did that scene with Touma and Makishima have to be convey the idea that "Sybil system is run by serial killers"? Where Touma, the representative of the collective, is made to come off as creepy and psycho as hell what with her crazy eyes?
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Excuse us then for interpreting the scene differently than you.