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Sorry about that. But I know this one person. Her conception of what/who is evil and who/what is not boils down to what/who she personally likes or doesn\'t (she doesn\'t seem to differentiate between the concepts of \
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Sorry about that. But I know this one person. Her conception of what/who is evil and who/what is not boils down to what/who she personally likes or doesn\\\'t (she doesn\\\'t seem to differentiate between the concepts of \\\"not evil\\\" and \\\"good\\\" either). For real life views she\\\'s a supporter of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars among other things, again deciding solely on the like/do not like base. It bugs me, then, that people here seem to generally agree with this person, who is clearly totally amoral, possibly a Narcissist, in what/who is evil. And I finally found a loophole in her logic to prove my point. That\\\'s Kino. Especially contrasting Kino with Light Yagami. I am not giving up my chance to prove her a total amoral bastard. I don\\\'t believe the entire Internet could possibly be in agreement with her (though even if it so happens that still proves nothing about ethics).
If you knew someone like this (and if it so happened they were your ex and one of the reasons of your breakup was constant arguing about ethics) you would feel the same.
But I\\\'m not talking about this just to rant about her (it doesn\\\'t belong here), but to bring up the comparison between Kino and Light, as well as the issue of deciding who\\\'s evil based on who you don\\\'t like, which is just wrong.
Anyway, comparison:
(*)Both are ready to kill and let die to achieve their goal. In Kino\\\'s case, that\\\'s purely self-centered: to know the world. In Light\\\'s case, that\\\'s realizing his vision of ideal society, which you can\\\'t deny having at least some non-self-centered qualities
(*)Both are also ready to kill for self-defense. In Kino\\\'s case, even when killing is unnecessary. On contrast, Light never kills anyone he even possibly could deal with otherwise. If he didn\\\'t kill the law enforcement personnel with DN, they would raid his home and possibly kill him. At that point, just walking out of the situation wouldn\\\'t help, as it often would Kino.
(*)Light is genuinely concerned about the state of affairs around him. Kino on the other hand is just indifferent, all the way to the deep emotional level, not just in actions, and if the world is beautiful anyway even when it\\\'s ugly, why bother to make sure you don\\\'t make it uglier yourself. Her \\\"philosophy\\\" is just fatalistic excuse for not caring about anything besides doing exactly as she pleases.
Even if you bring up Mikami and his idea of killing lazy people, it\\\'s not that different from how lazy people are dealt with today: don\\\'t give them jobs, drive them to poverty and to steal something, and then lock them up in a place where the risk of getting violently assaulted is 10 times higher than in the rest of society \\\"for being evil\\\". Are we living in evil societies then? Is everyone non-anarchist evil? Essentially, you can\\\'t argue for a single fictional KnightTemplar\\\'s evilness, unless they actually torture their victims, without declaring Western societies evil as well.
If you knew someone like this (and if it so happened they were your ex and one of the reasons of your breakup was constant arguing about ethics) you would feel the same.
But I\\\'m not talking about this just to rant about her (it doesn\\\'t belong here), but to bring up the comparison between Kino and Light, as well as the issue of deciding who\\\'s evil based on who you don\\\'t like, which is just wrong.
Anyway, comparison:
(*)Both are ready to kill and let die to achieve their goal. In Kino\\\'s case, that\\\'s purely self-centered: to know the world. In Light\\\'s case, that\\\'s realizing his vision of ideal society, which you can\\\'t deny having at least some non-self-centered qualities
(*)Both are also ready to kill for self-defense. In Kino\\\'s case, even when killing is unnecessary. On contrast, Light never kills anyone he even possibly could deal with otherwise. If he didn\\\'t kill the law enforcement personnel with DN, they would raid his home and possibly kill him. At that point, just walking out of the situation wouldn\\\'t help, as it often would Kino.
(*)Light is genuinely concerned about the state of affairs around him. Kino on the other hand is just indifferent, all the way to the deep emotional level, not just in actions, and if the world is beautiful anyway even when it\\\'s ugly, why bother to make sure you don\\\'t make it uglier yourself. Her \\\"philosophy\\\" is just fatalistic excuse for not caring about anything besides doing exactly as she pleases.
Even if you bring up Mikami and his idea of killing lazy people, it\\\'s not that different from how lazy people are dealt with today: don\\\'t give them jobs, drive them to poverty and to steal something, and then lock them up in a place where the risk of getting violently assaulted is 10 times higher than in the rest of society \\\"for being evil\\\". Are we living in evil societies then? Is everyone non-anarchist evil? Essentially, you can\\\'t argue for a single fictional KnightTemplar\\\'s evilness, unless they actually torture their victims, without declaring Western societies evil as well.
