The Friends-Eater Classroom - Vol. 3 Ch. 17 - Game 8 - Stomach (Part 2)
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I don't understand the protagonist's way of thinking - and I see it a lot in anime/manga. It's like they have a completely different idea of responsibility and self-defense.
I mean, I sort of understand, because the basis in Western philosophy was Western thinkers such as John Locke.. But if you kill someone trying to kill you, that's not murder. That's self-defense. And in this case, all he did was prevent one classmate from murdering another - and that first classmate had already beaten another classmate to death just a few days earlier. I don't understand how it would be reasonable for the protagonist to come up with the notion of "I killed him". Had Classmate 1 killed Classmate 2, wouldn't he also be thinking "I killed her"? It's almost conceited, this notion of taking responsibility for deaths in this situation.
In western philosophy, the notion is that we all have an inherent right to life - and to take that away is homicide. To do so willfully or negligently is murder, to do so accidentally is manslaughter. The victims do not lose their right to life, but instead, someone tries to kill another person, what really happens is the attacker loses HIS right to life. Thus it is OK to kill that person, because they've transgressed someone's right to life.
If our protagonist is right, then he isn't the only one who bears responsibility - he's not the only one who protected the girl, after all. That means that if he's a killer, then so are all of his friends.
I mean, I sort of understand, because the basis in Western philosophy was Western thinkers such as John Locke.. But if you kill someone trying to kill you, that's not murder. That's self-defense. And in this case, all he did was prevent one classmate from murdering another - and that first classmate had already beaten another classmate to death just a few days earlier. I don't understand how it would be reasonable for the protagonist to come up with the notion of "I killed him". Had Classmate 1 killed Classmate 2, wouldn't he also be thinking "I killed her"? It's almost conceited, this notion of taking responsibility for deaths in this situation.
In western philosophy, the notion is that we all have an inherent right to life - and to take that away is homicide. To do so willfully or negligently is murder, to do so accidentally is manslaughter. The victims do not lose their right to life, but instead, someone tries to kill another person, what really happens is the attacker loses HIS right to life. Thus it is OK to kill that person, because they've transgressed someone's right to life.
If our protagonist is right, then he isn't the only one who bears responsibility - he's not the only one who protected the girl, after all. That means that if he's a killer, then so are all of his friends.
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@LysandersTreason I completely agree. I had to stop and roll my eyes when the protagonist got all guilt-stricken when the violent, murderous thug who was trying to kill him was stupid enough to jump out a window. I also don't understand why the protagonist feels guilty for deciding to save Nagumo over Yamaguchi. Nagumo is an innocent girl who's never hurt anyone whereas Yamaguchi was a violent murderer who had zero qualms about killing his classmates. It's pretty obvious which one deserves to live and which one deserves to die.
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Poor Yamaguchi!! T_T
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Justice for left eyeball chan. never forget.
@LysandersTreason @Silvermoon424 To be fair it's a difference of perspective, but taking it from the mc pov; he wants everyone to live, even though he knows that not possible. Plus, he carrying the will of his dead friend and crush, to save everyone or at least figure out what's going on. Also, given his since of justice, when he decided to save one classmate over another, he became a indirectly cause of there death and because of that he feels somewhat responsible. Though, even if the girl died, he would feel responsible for not doing more or being weak.
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