Talk:Mayu Arita/@comment-95.91.209.4-20170305164650/@comment-24.1.61.139-20170311222903

The show wasn't meant to be a "how to be a moral person in accordance with our society's standards" guidebook for young people. It is meant to be dark and to make you question life and the action and subjectiveness of judgement

(which I think is good because morality is a changing social construct and isn't black and white as much as we like to say "Here are the things that are good because I like them. Now here are the things that are bad because I dislike them. In the end, if you do good things, you'll be rewarded. If you do bad things, you'll be punished". We really don't know these things that we often hear from others and then accept unquestioningly and I like that this anime challenged it)

Though to be completely honest, I always rolled my eyes a bit when I heard people say, "People should stay away from this because it's bad for young people". I just turned 18 this year but throughout my life, I've always disliked the way people talked about children like they were mindless entities, waiting to be shaped into the "right" mindset by those around them. Children are less one dimensional & predictable and more complicated than people often think and tbh if I saw this show 10 years ago, I'd probably be very confused and very saddened by the events but I'd never ever think, "WOW! EVIL IS STRONGER THAN GOOD! I'M GOING TO GIVE UP ON MY DREAMS FROM NOW ON!"