Rinzai Did Nothing Wrong.

Dilemma is the heart of narrative, as is established by Jeff Kitchen in his interviews. Yet what appears to be dilemma, a decision in between two evils, is quite often nothing more than a scenario wherein one course of action is defensible and others cannot be, but failure is a common risk. It’s in the aftermath of such a failure that excuses come, and often such excuses harden into orthodoxies which become a moral dogma. Yet a moral dogma, though it is dogmatic, is not moral. Though it’s paradoxical to say that something we describe as “moral” is not moral, that’s because to classify a thing as “moral” means to claim that it *aspires* to be moral, yet the possibility of failure leads us to conclude that it is not what it pretends to be, and contradictions in semantics cease to bother us when we remember what the nature of a moral act is truly.   Fans of anime who vilify Light Yagami may claim that it was Light’s *decision* to employ the Death Note which leads to his downfall. ...

V.        The Enemy.   What these jokers want is not a saviour, but somebody to “relate” with. They don’t care about the facts; they **want** it all to pander to their meaningless projections. They don’t want to practice what they preach; (for it would always fall apart, without objective infrastructure) they just want **excuses.** “Goodness”, to their minds, is being innocent and lucky not to have to bother with another’s pain, except when such an Other is a fellow coward whose existence seems to vindicate the Self. One might then be inclined to posit, for a moment, that they all deserve the hellish World we live in. Yet that’s being much too generous with credit, yet again.   Remember: that not **all** of us are like them, (though they’d lead you to believe it) and not everyone who isn’t evil is a coward. Rather, evil **is** the cowardice, though cowards have conspired to believe themselves to be the good, to vilify the Heroes and destroy th...

  IV.        The Mobs. Still these cowards run our world, sarcastically remarking on our passion from a good, safe distance, charmingly or snidely, all depending on the “social context” written by the therapists. It is small wonder that the “Villains” wiki classifies Light Yagami as being not just “evil” but “**pure** evil”. Clearly, saving millions of lives, while ending those that cannot be redeemed, is not “redeeming” in itself, and legions of supporters, all over the World, are just “delusional” when just a couple cops express disgust, the latter following instructions from a kid who does not care for Law **nor** Justice but investigates a vigilante for his own **amusement.** ^ Such a paragon of ethical complexity and vision . How convenient to those who never had to **bother** with such lofty concepts but depended on these agencies for their security!! If **these** are those same people who would sympathize with murderers who murder out of fea...

  III.        The Cowards.   It must be obvious, in retrospect, how psychological projection must arise. The apathy and cowardice I hated was not my projection, for it is the very **source** of such projection, and, by hating it instead of letting it persist and worm its way into my heart, I kept projection at a distance, as with all excuses it was heir to, both from the neurotics and their equally neurotic therapists and advocates. We only are inclined to such projections out of **fear**, and only when that fear controls us. When I hate the coward, I do judge the action, but according to a Greater Good and not a feeble fear. Towards that end, intent makes all the difference. Yet how can I be sure that the intent I see is **truly** cowardice or envy, while the critics who ascribe such vices to my heroes are delusional? It is because it’s *obvious* when *nothing* that the coward does is for the Greater Good, no opportunity for honour does he ...

  II.         The Therapists.   I’ll also add that, while I don’t believe projection to be at the root of all disgust, for basic sympathy *for victims* has to manifest in such disgust, it’s obvious to me that all those propagators of “projection” were themselves projecting, for what else is there to do when one won’t **act??* Projection proves to be a greater problem than I thought, since **actions** matter less to people than a falsified “intent”. Rossiu was neither a Utilitarian, a Marxist, nor a Dreamer... but at least this video *allegedly* aspires to defend him. Regardless, even the intent (the **true** intent) and the success of those they vilified would matter less to them than actions; what they truly lacked, consistently, was any worldview wherein action could be judged by *merit* and *success.* They did not care how many blameless lives were saved, what innocence inspired or the Law required. Just so long as they projected an intent...

I.        The Critics.   The “Fandom” wiki is an arbitrary classifier when it comes to Heroes and to Villains. Most of my beloved characters are classified as “Villain”:    Chuck McGill,  Light Yagami,  Andy Bernard,  Gustavo Fring,  UBOA,  Rossiu , (*Gurren Lagann*)  Tim (from *Braid),  Severus Snape... Because Devils love to cry, apparently... And so on and so forth.   Yet why? Because they are intelligent, intense, severe, at times vindictive, cynical, elitist, and unwavering in their convictions. Disregarding all the contradictions, though, it’s obvious that this is **not** a website managed by the sorts of scholars of morality I’ve grown accustomed to. I did not want to think that people were so prone to psychological projection, but it’s there, for all to see: they’d rather let our World persist in hardship and injustice rather than to do the necessary work to set it ri...

Consider two quotations from the wiki * Fandom *; which do you believe to be the outlook of the Villain, and which outlook is the Hero’s point of view? A. “This world is rotten, and those who are making it rot deserve to die. Someone has to do it, so why not me? Even if it means sacrificing my own mind and soul, it's worth it. Because the world... can't go on like this. I wonder... what if someone else had picked up this notebook? Is there anyone out there other than me who'd be willing to eliminate the vermin from the world? If I don't do it, then who will? That's just it: there's no one. But I can do it. In fact, I'm the only one who can. I'll do it. Using the Death Note, I'll change the world.” B. “It's not a sense of justice. Figuring out difficult cases is my hobby. If you measured good and evil deeds by current laws, I would be responsible for many crimes. The same way you all like to solve mysteries and riddles, or clear video games more ...