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Old 2011-02-28, 22:13   Link #22084
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Originally Posted by Renall View Post
Besides, are we forgetting that if there was a crime (and maybe there was not), someone is guilty of that crime? Let's feel bad for the potential pain dealt to the good, yes, but why are we not willing to punish the evil? If the Rokkenjima incident was a murder, don't we deserve to know who that murderer was? It's not fair to everyone involved otherwise. Gohda's name deserves to be clean as much as Kyrie's (or George's, or Yasu's, or Battler's , or nobody's) deserves to be called out for their crime. There is actually a valid justice-based motive to unveiling what occurred.
Well, it depends.

What do you think should be done with the dead? Should we have a funeral for them and try to remember the best parts of who they were? Or should we tear out their guts, read their diaries, and expose everything bad about them to the world.

EP7 is probably a pretty good idea of what happened. The background scenes from the diary hint that its not too far off. Bern literally exposes all of a corpses insides to the world and shows the worst parts of each of the character. That's the kind of justice you want, the guilt and onus of crime to rest on a pair of shoulders.

As Kyrie says to Eva "You're just a murderer who didn't get the chance." That can be said of most of the characters on Rokkenjima.

If we want to go with the "truth" we get a family of murderers who would kill each other for greed. And a tormented soul, with a broken body, divided love, surrendering his/her will to fate because they were dealt a hand they couldn't handle.

That's the story.

So, what we get offered, is the chance to say "They may be that... but they are also this" and show the best of who they are rather than the very worst.

The only people who seem to really be under suspicion for the crime are the Ushiromiya family. Nanjo's son doesn't seem to worry about his family. The same probably applies to Gohda's family. And it seems like Kumasawa and Genji really only had the Ushiromiya family. So that leaves Ange as the only living person with a real stake. It's her family.

So she can either watch their guts and lies exposed, or she can have the knowledge that they weren't all horrible and so that she can get the closure she needs to stop searching for the Truth and to instead move on with her life.

No one can be put on Trial or made to answer for the crime-- they are all dead.

There is nothing dignified about reaching into opening the coffin that is Rokkenjima and there is no justice to be had. The desire to punish evil is no more noble than the desire to spell "Murderer" in piss on one or more of the graves of the dead.
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