ONE PIECE - Ch. 1160 - The God Valley Incident

[fight2live]

Garp's stocks are fucking plummeting to hell with this flashback

 

[Alesund]

I'd be willing to forgive young Garp if this is the first time he's heard of this happening AND if this is the last human hunt that ever happens.

 

[Iratana]

Is leaving the Marines even possible for these who witnessed this scene? Maybe you can't just quit like that. Or he wanted to at least try and be a good Marine even knowing the higher ups aren't.
Not protecting him here, just trying to think of options why he stayed. But maybe Oda will show us his reasons later on.

It's really hard to say. I'm guessing that for a Marine who wants to leave after witnessing the event, it would be about timing as well as their reason for resigning. If their resigning even seems a bit suspicious, Cipher Pol would likely be involved, or perhaps even admirals to hunt them down.

I'm not sure if Garp had ever attempted to resign (besides after Ace's death), but I'm willing to guess that Garp was hoping to play the long game with the Marines. He's well aware of the corruption within the World Government, and possibly believes that he alone wouldn't be able to change it. And he doesn't seem to share Dragon's views of using force to change the World Government as he still believes in the potential it represents for the people. So Garp bets on the future generation to achieve the change that he couldn't, hence his willingness to save Koby as well as his hopes for Luffy and Ace to become Marines.

Garp probably thought that by raising the new generation properly, that they would go on to raise the next generation properly as well, and so on and so forth until the World Government made up of people the right idea of justice and can bring a sweeping and peaceful change through it's inner working. The only issue with this idea is that the World Government is run by seemingly immortal evil beings, which I'm willing to believe that Garp himself is unaware of.

 

[kohakusan]

It's really hard to say. I'm guessing that for a Marine who wants to leave after witnessing the event, it would be about timing as well as their reason for resigning. If their resigning even seems a bit suspicious, Cipher Pol would likely be involved, or perhaps even admirals to hunt them down.

I'm not sure if Garp had ever attempted to resign (besides after Ace's death), but I'm willing to guess that Garp was hoping to play the long game with the Marines. He's well aware of the corruption within the World Government, and possibly believes that he alone wouldn't be able to change it. And he doesn't seem to share Dragon's views of using force to change the World Government as he still believes in the potential it represents for the people. So Garp bets on the future generation to achieve the change that he couldn't, hence his willingness to save Koby as well as his hopes for Luffy and Ace to become Marines.

Garp probably thought that by raising the new generation properly, that they would go on to raise the next generation properly as well, and so on and so forth until the World Government made up of people the right idea of justice and can bring a sweeping and peaceful change through it's inner working. The only issue with this idea is that the World Government is run by seemingly immortal evil beings, which I'm willing to believe that Garp himself is unaware of.

Yes, I second this, I was about to reply saying basically the same thing. Garp is one of those honest guys who wants to change the system from within, with order, that's why he hates pirates, he can't stand the chaos they're associated with even if some of their objectives are similar to his.