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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
Those who might have been dangerous as adults have already been culled when children. Presumably if the village could determine at birth which babies had the potential to become demons they'd kill them off then.
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That's partially what I hope the series won't end up saying. The village is set up in such a way that they can't afford to make even a single mistake. All it would take would be for them to fail to deal with an adult who's become a Fiend or Karma Demon, and boom, it's all over.
So, because of the risk they have a long period of time in which they observe the children and try to weed out the potentially dangerous ones. But one day, the child whom yesterday they were worried would turn on them legally becomes an adult, and...at that point they decide that they're no longer any threat, and they can't do anything to dispose of them? Yesterday, Child X is judged capable of becoming a karma demon or whatnot, but today they aren't. As a net to catch
most or almost all of the risks, it works well. To catch them all, completely reliably? No way.
Shun, for example, was a level-headed character. His personality was probably very stable and good at dealing with stress, and his control over his power was great. Tomiko had high hopes for him, as did everyone. But then he went karma demon all of a sudden. Who's to say that that can't happen to an adult?
The entire thing becomes a sham if the village has no plans or processes for what to do if an adult displays risky behaviour. Which is fine if that's what the story is trying to point out, but not so fine if it isn't and there's no reasonable explanation given for it.