[Vigilante justice... man, it's something they've debated as a group so many times now. Was it right to go around forcing peoples' hands by stealing their desires away from them? What ends justified the means, and what ends were too much for any one person to be able to enact on anyone? It's not something he ever became completely okay with. The first time they stole a heart was the hardest. Ryuji didn't want to do it until it was way too damn late, where a girl who was sexually abused, tried to take her own life.
Maybe he should be judged for what he did, but he knows what they were doing was messed up. And he could live with that guilt.]
It sure as hell ain't a god.
Look, I'm not gonna lie. I've done some sketchy shit too, stuff that if the police knew about me woulda gotten me thrown in juvie and jail for the rest of my life.
So I'm not innocent of it either. I'm a messed up person, too.
But when you can't sit around watchin' people do things just for the sake of hurting others, and you watch as the rest of society ain't gonna do shit to help them, I'd rather be a vigilante than a bystander. I'd do it all over again in a goddamn heartbeat.
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Maybe he should be judged for what he did, but he knows what they were doing was messed up. And he could live with that guilt.]
It sure as hell ain't a god.
Look, I'm not gonna lie. I've done some sketchy shit too, stuff that if the police knew about me woulda gotten me thrown in juvie and jail for the rest of my life.
So I'm not innocent of it either. I'm a messed up person, too.
But when you can't sit around watchin' people do things just for the sake of hurting others, and you watch as the rest of society ain't gonna do shit to help them, I'd rather be a vigilante than a bystander. I'd do it all over again in a goddamn heartbeat.
[So, Ashitaka.
Would you do it all over again?]