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Thanks for the well written response.
>We can. Any serious moral philosophy justifies killing a literal active serial killer
Certainly yes, thats why i brought up consequentialism. Thats why i also added ''yet we cannot exactly call his empathy wrong since the whole story is about what happens when people lack just that virtue'' to bring out the point that consequentialist approach is not the whole truth whatsoever. Johan was born trough events that were caused by people with no empathy. If everyone was like Tenma, there would be no Johan to challenge him. Yet thats impossible, and thats very much the point. Personally i dont think Tenma was right, but i do think his moral position was portrayed well. You cannot get rid of all murderers by killing them, which brings us to the ultimate question of the series portrayed in the climax. Its the question of evil. Since there's the ''monster'', what creates it?
>This is true, but he's also a very static character.
I'll give you that. I didn't mind that because i thought it was subversive; we expected him to really kill him this time by the end, and just as the camera zooms on him as hes about to pull the trigger the hobo shoots Johan. Then again, he cant change too much since hes supposed to represent an idea. They are the different sides of the coin, and i can see why'd you dislike that. I just cant say its bad writing. The reasons why i thought this was done well i mentioned earlier.