Shinomiya Kouta wa Mada Shinenai -Border of the Dead- - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - Pretend Living

[MangaDex]

 

[AhoBoy]

@givemersspls You can't kill or injure a corpse, and as borders don't exhibit the legally defined signs of life, they are corpses. You can interfere with a dead body, but since Reika isn't registered as a Border, she has no death certificate and thus isn't legally recognised as dead. Not declaring a death is against the law, so Reika is guilty of that. But you can't charge a dead person, but she's not recognised as dead so....
She's nothing. Nothing that happens to her means anything. The manager just mangled a bit of meat.

 

[mismarca]

wow her idea going to space is interesting. they could make a group of borders to colonize the other planet.

 

[Pyoro]

Vacuum probably would still do all sorts of unpleasant things to humans. They did say she still feels stuff like a normal person, right? Enjoy -273 degrees ...

I'm not entirely sure that Border discrimination makes that much sense. Have a bunch of powerful people die that way and they'd quickly change all the laws. I mean, sure, medical treatment being low priority and so on ... that they can probably justify; but everything else opens so many cans of worms ... why pay taxes ... what if they commit a crime themselves (dead people can't commit crimes after all) and so on ... it's all rather dubious I think.

 

[AhoBoy]

@Pyoro the first chapter implies that registering yourself as a Border will get you back some rights (and presumably responsibilities), the issue in this chapter is that Reika isn't registered. She isn't legally recognised at all, a non-entity.
If she were to commit a crime, the police would arrest her, find out she's a Border, get her declared dead, send her to the morgue and work from there. Presumably they'd register her and re-apply any charges as if she was registered at the time.
The alternative being that they process her as a dead body and any punishment would fall under the auspice of 'tending to a corpse' - Store the body for a while in a locked cabinet, perform an autopsy, perhaps even cremate the body. The official report would be that the perpetrator died when being arrested. If they're lucky, they'll get out and get registered.
You can see why Borders wouldn't want to risk 'slipping under the radar'.

 

[AgentKuga]

Okay, so resistant to mental breakdown? Isn’t that mean she’s just an optimist? Is that special?

I like the doctor. She has kyphosis, I can relate with her.

 

[rhino36]

Get a proofreader to fix your grammar, holy shit.

 

[JLZH]

How would everything be okay just because she cried and apologized?

 

[derpdederp]

The concept behind all this is ridiculous. So people become immortal zombies but lose their rights? that's just ridiculous. If they're conscious sentient beings, then they still should have human rights.

 

[sssr]

@derpdederp Borders are effectively immortal beings who are resistant to most things that would kill humans. The system is geared so that SOME of their rights are still recognized but others that pertain directly to their immortality aren't. Borders can still get a job and they have the basic protections of the law, so you can't for instance keep one as a sex slave in your personal dungeon. However, being immortal and effectively unkillable by most injuries and disease, it would be unfair to normal humans if Borders still get normal medical services or food stamps.

 

[feha]

If the author is trying to paint up an unjust world then they are failing. It just seems nonsensical to me when turning someone into a zombie against their will is neither murder, attempted murder, or assault. And as such no investigation is performed on the death. This isn't unjust, its just impossible.

 

[Loksel]

@AgentKuga The resistance could have something to do with the breakdown the decay of the brain after death...

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

Man the laws in this world are stupid. If there are people strongly against borders then it's a given that there are people that are strongly rooting for border rights. It's been ten years, how has there been no protests massive enough to change the laws?

BTW if the fact that she's an unregistered border is such an important plot point, why would they just talk about it in an instance and move on as if the reader catches onto that? I missed the point of the chapter until I read the comments. "Show, don't tell" is the basic law of storytelling.

 

[yurirei]

I have the same thought as well. If I couldn't breath, I could freely go diving without oxygen tank. Yeah!