How Psycho-Pass Teaches Us About Law | Anime Discussion
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- Psycho-Pass is the best, and most endlessly meaningful anime from Gen Urobuchi, full of lessons which can be taken into real life through it's deep characters and dark themes. Characters like Shinya Kogami and Shogo Makishima challenge the Sibyl System, creating a grey area where we have to question the value of the law, wile Akane wraps the anime into one by covering many truths about law; it's weakness, the importance of appearance, complacency, and even more. Akane conversations which Makishima, Kogami, and Sibyl themselves provide an excellent basis to discuss these topics, and how they effect us all...
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-We live in a Society-
*Society live within us*
-Akane (probably)
I love this lol
Hmm... 'It's not the Law that protects people, people protect the Law.' Whenever Akane says that, I felt chills in my spine. I dunno where I'd read about it but there was a reason why People built the concept of Law. The reasoning for that is... because People are inherently chaotic creatures. They act on emotions and create illogical actions that could endanger themselves or others and since they act on emotion, they finally realize what they're capable of, their destructive nature. Because of that, people feared themselves so they started building rules to restrict their actions...these rules eventually becomes Laws and thus inventing the concept of it.
Coming to the philosophical aspect, I think Akane is the only one who stands in the level of makashima
Always love getting more psycho-pass content and yet again you made a great video of psycho-passes numerous themes
Thanks, I'm always happy to provide! 😁
Giving psychos a free pass, a psycho pass.
It is such an odd title like that, for something that exists in universe. Like Sibyl openly mocking everyone
This is my favorite anime and the very first one I watched. The way you explained the theme about the law and how it is mostly upheld by its citizens was great. Keep up the good work
Thank you, will do! : D
No one is above the law cause WE ARE THE LAW
Thats, in a comedic way, basically the summary of it all 🤣
@@ProfessorViral lol
Thanks for making such highly detailed philosophical videos, really appreciate all the effort you put in! ❤️
Great video. It’s astounding how much PP really has to it, even in a mere 24 episodes.
For sure, the fact I keep finding finding much to talk about with it is amazing, and a testament to the depth of Urobuchis work overall
This is one of my favorite anime and I'm enjoying working my way through your videos on it. I just wanted to say I'm so glad you were able to get these important points across and discuss the law and government and society's role in law without any partisan rhetoric in either direction. It's a really important way to make sure as many people as positive listen and it helps keep toxic politicization outside of anime which is ultimately meant for us to enjoy.
Thank you, it means a lot to see my intentions came though! I have a very strong stance on government affairs, and I believe that picking a side is necessary, especially when so much is on the line. But, for discussion I know neutral can provide a great value
Thanks for leaving a script of this in description, much easier to understand than having to pause the video every few moments.
No problem, glad it helped!
The timing of this video is very odd.
Just yesterday,I realized how easily I could break the rules of my school, especially in online, and here you are telling me how weak law is
I just want to thank you, I'm trying to write my own story, and you give a lot of insightfull thinking to add in it :)
Thank you, happy to hear that!
Great video
Thanks!
I saw your F/Z vid and I really dig ur content. You should do more Fate stuff... I am sure you will love digging into the Archer/Shirou dynamic.
Thank you! I honestly want more Gilgamesh more than anything after F/Z
Nietzsche's criticism of equality comes into play here Imo. What makes us think that total equality would be good for us?
there is no "criminal" or "hero" - there is only "perspective" and "interest".
Wrong. Pedophilia is criminal.
@@beastvicious8672 not when society as a whole considers it normal. see ancient greece. furthermore, until two centuries ago ten-year-olds were married to fifty-year-olds. and before you come to me with child murder: killing children in the context of wars is something normal. Morality ends where economic and / or political interests begin.
@@Arschkratzer True. But doesn't change that it's wrong and should be punished.
@@beastvicious8672 sure.
Bro u gotta do hellsing ultimate and gungrave sometime in the future hella underrated😭
I'm certainly loving all your Psycho-Pass content. One thing I'd like to bring up here is this: When you're talking about the lack of knowledge society has of Sybil @18:20, that's worth knowing about, but I think is much less important than the nature of the Psycho-Pass assessments in general. Clearly nobody really knows about the bias and flaws of using Sybil as their god... but that's almost made a non-issue due to everyone's desire to keep their criminal coefficients as low as possible. Once you know (or honestly, once you even suspect) that thinking in opposition to Sybil raises your crime coefficient, then you're very unlikely to even explore those options. And anyone who does gets flagged by a scanner before they can get more people on their side unless Makashima somehow finds them first.
I felt this was worth bringing up since the show didn't focus much on showing how a typical person goes to a latent or active criminal. They clearly showed it happening several times, but they were all (or close to all) in direct response to an extreme event involving violence or death. But with violence shown to be so rare, they were all edge-cases not representative of many criminals at all. So this would be a more typical route since once you begin seriously questioning Sybil then you're questioning society as a whole which can easily translate to justification for all sorts of terrible acts you'd otherwise abhor.
Great video, brings a really nice perspective to that quote of Akane that I wholeheartedly disagree with.
One little but that I have though is your ending notion about enforcing law yourself being a childish narcissism. If anything, Kougami at the end just proves that what we need are these childish narcissists.
Kogami evades that final judgment because he accepts the consequences of his actions, and leaves society. So, he "makes up for it," in a sense. I think that's how he would view it as well, given he admits Akane is of a better mindset, but pursues his own goals anyway
@@ProfessorViral World of acknowledgement he gives to Akane speak of a world that is sadly very unrealistic though. Things he says are simply incompatible with human nature on societal level. Meanwhile he himself makes conscious sacrifices that are a detriment only to himself (if at all, wouldn't be surprised if he preferred a war zone to a sci-fi cage). So in my personal opinion , even though he might imply otherwise, it's Kougami that really looks like an example to follow here, at least for me.
A very important topic indeed... Though I watched Psycho-Pass a long time ago and took it at face value instead of analyzing it like this, I did end up coming to a similar conclusion one night while lost in thought, and it was fun to see it articulated so well, especially while using one of my favorite animes to explain it. It's unfortunate that the majority of the populace is too complacent to even consider the extent to which the law has been trampled by the powers that be in recent years, because I'm sure those powers see how little backlash they've faced as a result and will only become more brazen as time goes on. As much as the French are joked about for their recent war history, the people of France are incredibly inspirational when it comes to standing up to injustice imposed on them by the government, and we could learn a thing or two from them. Here's hoping the law doesn't die here in America.
All that said, I just wanted to write a comment to appease the algorithm gods, because I just found you and enjoy your content immensely. I wish you luck!
Can you talk about Kaitou Joker?
Man, this is brilliant... Fact, emotions, conclusions, assumptions, explanation of told ideas, and underlying ideas. Everything put into such a mice thought-provoking essay. You're making the work I always aspired to make but never could. If you ever see this please never stop doing what you do.
On other note, Psycho-pass happens to be my favorite anime of all time. Since first seeing it I was always adamant on believing that in some point of our society development it will at least partly become reality we'll face. And behold, the late 2022-2023 AI advancements are setting us on the exact path. So far this anime aging like fine wine, we'll see what the future brings.
Don't confuse law, justice and morality. For example i live in Australia where it is a crime for most people to own imitation firearms but is owning an imiration firearm immoral? Is speeding immoral?
Wish I had the link to the references
Can you talk about Kamen Rider Gaim? It was written by Gen too
If anyone was going to make me go for it, it would be Urobutcher, but I can't say it's exactly my kind of thing haha
What was your degree in?
Essentially industrial engineering
This anime proves exactly why Kantian ethics suck.
First
This is a factual statement
Coming to judging people, objectivity is the worst subjectivity.
Objectivity actually do not exist, it's just a weak concept trying to please everyone with no real base
Objectivity does exist. Pedophilia is evil, no if's or but's.
If objectivity doesn't exist then there's no definition of subjetive, therefore nothing exist lmao
@@beastvicious8672 , every moral system has a subjective framework.
@@inbb510 Drinking the blood of children is evil, wouldn't you agree?
@@beastvicious8672 , yes I believe that but that's not the point. You still believe in a subjective moral framework. That subjectivity being that unnecessary suffering is bad. You can't prove it. We intuitively *know* that's the case and we can feel it, but we can't *prove* it. It's an axiomatic statement.