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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- At an earlier time I was going to describe Hirata as the embodiment of corporate evil but I felt it may be too early to suggest that. Now I feel I was right on the nose. He made this place to frame many kids in replace of “competent valuable adults” and their children, and bring in the “trash” that actually did the crimes they are accused of. Unlike Sawai who thought “evil acts are evil”, here we have Hirata who believes one’s value and competence is what matters. If you don’t have value then you are free to be killed. Creepily utilitarian when you look at it that way! Like literally one of the prime counterexamples against utilitarianism of “is it morally permissible to kill homeless people and give their organs to people who benefit society and need them”? Sawai and Hirata are extremes in that way, but differing extremes that both don’t respect any innate dignity of humanity. In fact Hirata’s line about human rights being a privilege rather than a foundation embodied that. I do appreciate how Fukumoto caters to the “trash” of society, whether juvenile delinquents or the residentially challenged. Gai was hit by Hirata’s words, to take their struggling youth from them is to take a treasure from them. Because as messy as it is, as troublesome as it is, Gai did experience some real happiness in that abandoned house!!! Further, that talk about them being trash made me think of the line in Kurosawa:
Sawai was thrown away like dirt… there’s just something so gross about loyalty being completely based on a chain of command like this. I was shocked that Gai seemed to think taking Sawai hostage was a good idea though, he saw the desperation and fear Sawai was going through but perhaps not on the level we did. I may have 20/20 vision in retrospect here as I got to see it all and he didn’t. At the least, for most of us I’m sure the shooting of Sawai didn’t come as a surprise and It led to the poisoning threat, I’m sure!! There was also definitely a critique of the juvenile law here. I seem to recall Fukumoto also addressing the child pornography laws in Shin Kurosawa, both suggesting they are formed in a way that is deeply harmful. |
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