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Reading this topic reminds me of the moronic facebook posts made by some girls who thought the Boston Bomber brothers were innocent because one of them was cute. Yes, that was a thing. Justice is blind for a good reason. I find Shinichi and Ran idealistic when it comes to their principles about murder. One way to look at ethics is to measure how much someone values sticking to good principles versus good outcomes. A principle-driven person would not support bad means even if it led to a very good end, while an outcome-driven person would be upset when good principles prevented good ends. Shinichi and Ran are both very principled, and that works well in places like Japan which is attentive to crime. It is hard to be principled in places that are unfair. For instance, there have been lots of cases in India where repeat rapists and killers who kept getting away because of connections or threats were then killed by mobs. (Akku Yadav was a famous one.) Is it worth standing by your principle not to murder when a rapist will keep attacking the women and children in your community with no hope of justice? That's the sort of decisions some people have to face. Even though I live in a nice country, I can recognize adherence to principles is a luxury rather than universal law that will work well for everyone. That's why I think that Shinichi and Ran are idealistic - they are inexperienced when it comes to struggles others have to face in unfair places. Mostly I hate it when Gosho tries to say one side of the ethics measure I mentioned above is the right one. There was a moment of really strong values dissonance in the fandom when Sera tried to get that hostage taker shot in Mouri agency hostage case but Ran stopped her because she didn't want him to be killed. Gosho made it seem like Sera was worse than Ran for trying to put a good outcome ahead of good principles. I don't like that sort of simplistic thinking about ethics. Both sides have their merits.

The material was relatively easy for me to absorb and the teachers were super friendly. I'm not afraid to admit that I often got in trouble for talking and going off on tangents. Teachers would sometimes force me to stay in the classroom during recess as punishment. Despite this, I remember I was a super affectionate person back in elementary school; I wouldn't let that affect how much I loved school. I would frequently give my teachers hugs, and I loved everyone and everything--no matter how much I got scolded. Because the workload wasn't as tough, I often went outside to play with the neighborhood kids as well. I didn't mind getting dirty so it didn't matter to me whether or not my clothes got muddy or not. I'm sure my parents were annoyed to some extent though, lol. My dad still forced me to work on math packets so I could get "ahead of the game"--it really helped me jump a few levels even though doing them felt like torture. I was working on systems of equations algebra around fifth grade, but it was still a lot of fun for me. A bit contradictory isn't it? Well, I loved math, haha. It was just the gruesome homework that bothered me, even though that was what ultimately sparked my love for math. So don't complain about your homework too much, because you never know! Elementary and middle school are times when you discover yourself. You have a lot of freedom--more than you think. Do what you want to do. Immerse yourself in a good book, play outside once in a while, try something new. If there was one thing I could tell my past self, it would be to stop complaining. Enjoy what you have to the fullest, because you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Feed into your passions. Try to discover who you really are. If you like math, do math. If you like science, toy around with science kits. Wanna play guitar? Go for it. When you look back on yourself and the only thing you've done was complain, lock yourself indoors, and surf the internet, how fulfilling is that going to feel? Even to this day, I feel like I still haven't accomplished as much as I would have liked. So make sure you enjoy what you have. Don't be so hard on yourself and smile once in a while! Don't focus too much on the workload either, because school is only as fun as you make it out to be It seems like everything's getting piled on Friday this week, whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... this series and sequences stuff is going to end up being the death of me. haha, are you kidding me? you'd have to be insane to marathon all 700+ episodes. I've only watched the plot-based episodes (cherry-picked the rest), and I still post in there whenever there's a topic of discussion open. You don't need to watch all of the episodes to get caught up or contribute to discussion, lol.

The Yakuza have gone downhill in Japan the last decade+. They are much less accepted now than they were. ... Your thinking seems out of whack. Your sureness they will repent just because they are beautiful makes no sense because beauty has nothing to do with goodness. The world isn't a Disney movie where ugly people are bad and pretty ones are good. I think you are thinking too much with the "lower brain" instead of the one in your head.

Well, I read it in many articles, don't remember all the links, here are some examples: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2009/s2715335.htm http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/japan http://www.japansubculture.com/child-pornography-pulling-profits/ Or this book: http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Vice-American-Reporter-Police/dp/0307378799/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

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