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Originally Posted by Qilin

Take note that Gino is an Inspector, and most other characters are either psychopaths, Enforcers, or Akane. I think it's safe to say that most of them are already on the far side of the system. Gino has good reason to be concerned over his Psycho-Pass level, imo.

I'm not sure if you're getting my point here. Yes, Gino has good reason to be concerned over his Psycho-Pass level... and that's why it says a lot that he never flinched over getting to hear classified information that might have been dark and troubling.

Humans are curious by nature. If someone offers to tell us some secret, our ears tend to perk up, even if the secret is something that we might later regret knowing about.

Freedom is well and good, but it also entails full responsibility for the consequences of the choices it presents. This is the burden the comes with freedom that many are unable to bear.

But even responsibility is not strictly a burden. Responsibility entails both "credit" (positive) and "blame" (negative). If you take responsibility for something, and you do a good job with it, you get "credit" for it. That's a good thing. It gives people a higher sense of self-esteem and personal self-worth.

Just the fact that it was indeed thought of and shared among a large number of societies already makes it arbitrary.

Balderdash. Why, what you're describing is the very opposite of arbitrary! If a concept is carefully developed over time by a large number of societies, to the point that people largely agree upon it, it is not at all arbitrary.

"Arbitrary" is random, whimsical, and impulsive by nature. The modern world's understanding of "humanity" and "freedom" is not at all those things.

It's still perfectly possible for a society to arise which value such ideals even less.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that the ideals themselves are arbitrary. The ideals have a generally agreed upon meaning that has been well-developed and articulated over hundreds of years of human civilization. They're not at all arbitrary. They're rather fairly concrete.

In such a case, why should we judge such societies through our own culture's context?

"Freedom" is a concept that transcends any one culture. So when we critique a society for lacking freedom, it need not be through any one particular cultural context.

It's impossible to create an entirely happy society while maintaining such standards of freedom.

No society is truly entirely happy.

In fact, it would probably encourage inequality in the long run since a pyramid is probably the most stable economic model to encompass such a society.

There's more inequality in the world of Psycho-Pass than there is in our world. Psycho-Pass readings have added on a whole new measure of inequality in the world of Psycho-Pass. It's provided yet another way to categorize and stratify people. In fact, it's even created something of a caste system in the world of Psycho-Pass.

The society of Psycho-Pass runs contrary to both liberty and equality.