Vigilante - Ch. 41

[MangaDex]

 

[Kaferoilc]

No

 

[Sebee1]

I mean... He's got a point

 

[YerRob]

His point is a bit flawed tho. MC does literally weep every time something bad happens to some innocent soul, so he's not just killing just cause.

 

[CryptoParagon]

Yeah, taking the power of the state to punish without replacing it with a better process doesn't jib with his stated goal. Vengeance or revenge, the whole eye for a eye thing didn't do humanity a lot of good for the 1000's of years we practiced it.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

@YerRob I mean, he get sad but it's always in reference to his own trauma so the other guy still has a point.

And honestly, neither side having a perfect point is kinda more suited for the situation IMO.

 

[Kendama]

Ji Young has been more often than not shown to be overjoyed by killing or maiming his victims. No shortage of deranged smiling faces. His standards for killing are bogus. That's what makes this series interesting. As I said before, this is a case of a vigilante who isn't glorified by the story. He's not a monster, but he's not some moral, idealistic hero. And I think that's the whole point. I'm just waiting for when the literary metaphors skip to Nietzsche, staring into the abyss and all.

 

[TwinAero]

Glad someone called him out on his justiceboner, its not really taking pleasure in the vigilantism that bugs me, but his biased selection of the targets to satisfy his own vindictive urges while demonizing other vigilantes in the name of justice.

 

[YerRob]

@BalrogDeMorgoth while that is true, and he does get a kick out of it, he isn't exactly just your average serial killer. His enjoyment comes from his understanding of justice, wich can kinda be TL;DR-ed into "society's justice didn't save my loved ones, so i will save others, and correct justice's mistakes", and his enacting of it.
He genuinely believes what he does is not necessarily good, but "justice" and he feels ecstasic when it finally happens.
What he's doing is basically just the extreme version of the average "good" samaritan, where they secretly celebrate the deaths of the corrupt and the guilty, except here he's the one doing the killing and celebrating very personally, wich imo can't be compared to regular ol' serial killing, ofc the morality of it is a whole other issue.

 

[Mnx]

Is he having a mental breakdown?

 

[banjomarx]

@YerRob even the most horrible and wretched people have a reason for what they do, it just might not be a GOOD reason

 

[FROSCHKEK]

Ty for translating good sirs.