Thread: Licensed Noragami Aragoto (Season 2)
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Old 2015-10-04, 12:27   Link #35
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It's not up to him to decide.
Isn't it? I repeat: this is the suicide debate all over again. You're not going to get a consensus on this. People have been debating the ethics of allowing someone to kill themselves for centuries.

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First, you don't know that. We don't have nearly enough context to claim her jinki couldn't be saved.
My comments build off each other, so taking them out of context removes the validity of your counterarguments. The statement was predicated on the situation being as I theorized: that the Shinki were corrupted beyond saving. That is based on the fact that Bishamon was visibly even more terribly blighted than Yato was during Yukine's ablution ceremony. Yukine had been corrupted to the point where he was seconds away from never being able to return. If Bishamon was worse than Yato, her Shinki were likely worse than Yukine.

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She would be reborn. Gods aren't dead people. They exist because of human wishes. A popular god like Bishamon would be reborn no matter what happens to her.
I have not read the source, however the anime's treatment of the blight acts like it is a malaise that harms not simply the body, but the soul. I would not dismiss the idea of such a thing being able to destroy a god permanently, no matter what else would normally happen to them. If there is information countering this, I will hear it.

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So no one could blame Bishamon if her decisions put human lives in danger. She's a god.
Only by their strict legal definitions. They aren't held accountable by sins upon their souls, no, because there is no higher authority to do so. But plenty of people who knew her could and would blame her if her decisions put innocent lives in danger. People do not need greater authority than someone to judge them when they do evil. Yato is a god, yet his actions are judged as evil, wrong, or misguided all the time. You're doing it right now. Yet you deny the right to treat Bishamon equally? Don't be a hypocrite.
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