Started watching Tokyo Ghoul with the partner’s boys. Quite the interesting show there. I enjoy how some anime work so hard to talk about seriously moral questions and don’t openly tell you one side is better than the other. This is often the beauty of foreign cinema. There is a lack of moral quandary in American cinema that serves to reinforce what is quickly becoming a society of everyone thinking they are right, moral, and good.
Are we right? Are we moral or good? In truth we are capitalistic and all morals serve the dollar in the most basic sense. We form legislation primarily designed to promote wealth. We cloak it in religion but argue that we should legislate separate from religion. In truth we are a quilt of contradictions knitted together by people whose common interest is being rich and happy. Unfortunately, we have conflated the ideas of one with the other.
Some Thoughts:
- Having an interesting house argument about whether or not it is okay to “one-shot” the Hulk before he goes into full rage mode. My position on this is as such: Is it moral to attack someone before they become a real threat? This is the pre-emptive strike argument. Of course, one could make the argument that once Banner goes Hulk he automatically presents a threat, because he was already made angry. Of course the same threat could be assumed pre-anger. He’s gonna get mad, or as the MCU suggests, he’s always angry. So, no. Don’t one shot the Hulk before he goes full power. Don’t create the conditions for him to go full power on you.