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what draws Western audiences to anime is
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it the greater diversity of Storytelling
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that you just can't get in Western Media
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or is it the rigorous online debates
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over who is best girl for myself I got
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into anime because of its tendency to
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provoke a philosophical mindset I mean
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sure there's plenty that don't but
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compared to Western animation the
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difference is virtually night and day it
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almost seems like a requirement for a
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lot of anime that they brood on the
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deepest unsolvable mysteries of The
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Human Condition yet I missed out on the
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delightfully daring and challenging
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philosophical content that the medium
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was capable of for most of my life
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though I had watched thought-provoking
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anime like Ghost in the Shell early on
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in life it wasn't until 2021 that I
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started to embrace the medium
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enthusiastically thanks to
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recommendations from my amazing wife for
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the past 3 years she has helped guide me
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to all the most novel philosophical
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ideas that the medium was capable of now
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I feel the time has come where I could
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reflect on all the anime I have watched
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and competently determine which ones
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have had the most enlightening effects I
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want to determine which anime did the
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best at drawing upon pre-existing
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philosophical material and then inspired
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fans like me to seek out the greatest
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human Minds that ever lived so I put
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together a top 10 list of anime that I
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believe contain both the most
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philosophical content and also do the
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most to birth one's inner philosopher
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before I do that I want to introduce you
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to a simple tool that will help quantify
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the philosophical content in each anime
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it's a tool that my friend Arcane
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suggested I use when I did my top 10
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most philosophical games list with each
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anime we will measure it against four
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categories of philosophy and give each
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of them a zero out of five score both
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his and my score for each anime will be
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put in the bottom right corner of the
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screen at the beginning of each entry
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finally I have six honorable mentions
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Pluto code guos Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Paranoia Agent and cowboy bbop as for
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the sixth honorable mention I will
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reveal it in just a few seconds but I
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want to keep it a secret until after I
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reveal my number 10 ENT we're going to
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hate it aren't
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we it it's going to an anime that should
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be on the list but it's not and we
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should just click off
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now these are the top 10 most
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philosophical anime number 10 techn lies
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in my experience anybody who knows
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anything about this anime tends to also
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be aware of the Creator as well as his
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other more famous and more beloved anime
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serial experiments Lane which is you
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guessed the final honorable mention
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would you just hear me out for 10
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seconds literally 10 seconds if you had
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any doubt that I was trying to be as
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objective as I could about this list
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know that serial experiments Lane is
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probably in my top 10 favorite anime of
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all time and is in almost every
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conceivable way Superior to technal lie
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but note that this isn't a list about
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overall quality but rather the quality
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and quantity of its philosophy based on
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that alone I must give techn the slight
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Edge why just like serial experiments
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Lane technal Li deals with a lot of the
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same philosophical questions regarding
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the ethics of human augmentation
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specifically is it possible nay is it
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desirable to augment a human being to
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the point that their bodies and Minds
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become Inseparable from that of a god
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with both series they come to the same
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conclusion that no it is not desirable
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but where technal lies differs from its
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Brethren is that it takes that
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conclusion and tests it in the most
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brutal of way ways set in a
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post-apocalyptic future in the
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underground city of Lux technol Li
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follows a character named iches a prize
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fighter who recently suffered the loss
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of both his arm and leg a character
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named doc takes pity on him and decides
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to replace his arm and leg via an
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augmentation process called technation
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via his connection to Doc ichay gets
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tingled up with various radical
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political groups vying for control over
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Lux it is up to Ichi and whatever
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comrades he can muster to try and stop
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things from getting out of control but
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as things inevitably do get out of
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control the temptation to escape it all
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through augmentation surmounts Beyond
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this synopsis I can't say much without
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spoiling the series all I can say is
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that the city of Lux and the brutality
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of living there tests that aformentioned
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belief that one should not augment the
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body and mind to such an extent that
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they can escape the pain of living it
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tests it so much that it renders techn
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lies in my opinion the bleakest story in
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the history of the medium nonetheless
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contrasting against that bleakness makes
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the positive in techno lies shine
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brighter than it did in serial
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experiments Lane though it's a tough
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watch from beginning to end it will make
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those who are able to discern its
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subtext feel enlightened like they can
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encounter the worst life has to offer
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and emerge
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unscathed number nine Full Metal
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Alchemist Series this is the only cheat
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on the list and even then it's only a
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quasi cheat I simply could not choose
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between the original Full Metal
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Alchemist anime and Brotherhood while I
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think the original anime is more obvious
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with its philosophical themes
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Brotherhood is less obvious but just as
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dense in other ways starting with
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Brotherhood I will go on record and say
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that the metaphysical philosophy on
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display in Brotherhood might be the best
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I have ever seen in any medium not just
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Anime hell I did an entire five-part
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series showing just how deep Brotherhood
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goes with its symbolism which is almost
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entirely accurate to actual alchemical
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practice and the Hermetic tradition it
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Springs from every symbol is used
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purposefully in order to Echo hermetic
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philosophy which is then beautifully
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interwoven through the anime's various
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themes including the tension between
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faith and science the importance of
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mitigating hubris and how love and
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friendship truly do conquer all and not
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just in a Kingdom Hearts kind of way
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despite that there are philosophical
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elements that I believe were Superior in
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the original 2003 anime it has a much
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darker tone overall replacing the
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metaphysical philosophy of Brotherhood
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with a heavier emphasis on
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existentialism it makes the Journey of
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the main characters to fix their broken
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bodies after a tragic accident very
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emotional not necessarily more emotional
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than Brotherhood but emotional in a
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different more painful way they are
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constantly trying to find a source of
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meaning that can sustain them despite
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the suffering that they have gone
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through which becomes increasingly
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impossible as the anime goes along the
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this is especially true in their
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confrontations with the main villain
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whose nihilistic philosophy Bears a
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greater degree of sophistication than
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let's say your average Final Fantasy
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villain though ultimately I think that
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Brotherhood is clearly the superior
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anime in almost every way the 2003 anime
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is still worth your time and it
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approaches the level of philosophical
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quality that is contained in
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Brotherhood number eight monster if if
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you still had any doubt about my
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attempts to be objective despite what I
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said in my number 10 entry know that
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monster is my all-time favorite anime so
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again quality isn't the primary factor
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here though Monster's breadth of
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philosophy is arguably the lowest of any
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entry on this list the few philosophical
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schools and subjects that are there are
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explored and exploited in ways that are
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as brilliant as they are terrifying in
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short the central question that monster
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poses its audience is could the Devil
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exist not the mythological being but a
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human that Bears all the evil traits
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that a devil would possess if so what
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would the devil's philosophy of evil
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look like and how should Humanity
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contend with that evil if they even can
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monster draws upon the greatest works of
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literature that explore that same
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question works like gira's fa and
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Milton's Paradise Lost which feature the
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devil or a devil-like character it then
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adopts all the common traits shared
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between those depictions of evil and
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plants them in the anime Central villain
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Johan Liebert for the series's duration
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many characters succumb to the corrosive
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nature of Johan's nihilistic philosophy
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one which seeks to negate life in the
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most subtle yet efficient ways possible
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as these characters get picked off and
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Johan expertly evades the law the
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protagonists that remain who are aware
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of the depths of Johan's evil become
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tempted to go outside the law and kill
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him even if it meant they would spend
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the rest of their lives in jail it might
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still be the utilitarian option it might
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be better than letting somebody as evil
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and as cunning as you Johan stay alive
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though the anime tempts you to believe
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this through Johan's vile actions it
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slowly but surely offers a positive
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alternative to Johan's philosophy as
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well as alternative methods for
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understanding and dealing with somebody
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who is capable of such evil best of all
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that alternative philosophy is grounded
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in truths that accentuate the beauty of
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life and the power of love to conquer
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all and again it's it's not done in a
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Cheesy polyana type way it accurately
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and honestly portrays the philosophy of
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evil in all of its power and then
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refutes it with a powerful life
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affirming attitude one that is
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impossible to not adopt after you watch
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monster that is why it is my all-time
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favorite anime number seven Stein gate
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arguably the most unique entry on this
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list if only for the fact that it
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features a time travel device in the
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form of a cell phone attached to a
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microwave no I'm not kidding despite
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that Ridiculousness Stein skate is
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brilliant and its philosophy though only
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one of many parts that make up its
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Brilliance is something that I have no
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problem describing as groundbreaking
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Stein gate contends with the ethics of
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time travel by grounding it in the
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complex and sometimes obtuse philosophy
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of Martin haiger to put it as simp
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simply as I can heiger believed that
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human beings were quote unquote Tim
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haunted by that he meant that Human
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Action is motivated by the knowledge of
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our impending deaths and in his opinion
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the best way to live in the face of that
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knowledge is to develop the best forms
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of care for oneself and for others now
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what Stein skate does is take haider's
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belief and sees how it would apply if
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one could send their Consciousness back
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in time that way one could theoretically
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live forever one wouldn't have to deal
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with the grief that comes with losing a
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loved one in other words one wouldn't
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have to be time haunted yet is this so
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desirable is avoiding the realities of
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death the proper way to care for one's
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own mental health does the lack of an
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ability to die lessen the specialness of
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a person or your relationship to them
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after all something isn't necessarily
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beautiful because it lasts forever there
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are other ways that the ethics of time
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travel and proper care are explored
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along with some brilliant reinventions
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of the classic fate versus Free Will
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debate but I can't go into those without
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spoiling key plot points I hope that
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what I have said though motivates you to
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check it out so you too can share in the
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joy of this Timeless anime Shadow to the
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masked man number six Babylon I'm sure
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this is probably going to be the most
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controversial pick on this list this is
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because there are a lot of people that
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don't like this anime and I can
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understand why the primary reason being
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that the first half has one of the most
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intriguing yet disturbing premises in
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not just Anime but I would argue any
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form of media but in the second half it
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rushes to the end forgetting all the
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character arcs and political drama that
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made the first half so good though I
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have a lot of Sympathy For That
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perspective Babylon still makes the list
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because its premise instills such a
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strong philosophical mindset in part
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because the first half is so good in
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Babylon a new city in Japan is being
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built where experimental legislation can
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be passed one of the first pieces of
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experimental legislation is one that
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would allow anybody who wishes to take
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their own lives to do so regardless of
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the reason though the notion would
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likely seem repulsive to most people and
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it does at first to everybody in Babylon
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the anime gradually shows how easily
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people can use exceptions to general
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rules especially people with nefarious
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motivations to manipulate the general
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populace for instance though
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self-termination is bad what if one
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could take their own life in order to
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give a life- sustaining organ to a loved
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one it's exceptions like that
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which though somewhat uncontroversial on
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their own are used by people pushing the
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legislation to instill doubt in the
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minds of Voters enough doubt so they can
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foster their evil end goal I won't say
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what that goal is but I will say that
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the philosophy of The Mastermind behind
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it is very similar to Johan libert from
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the aforementioned monster in order to
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fight against this trend towards death
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the anime's protagonists must must
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concoct the most rigorous arguments they
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can and in turn it becomes impossible
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for the viewer to not want to do the
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same number five Death Note what if you
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had a magic book that would allow you to
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kill anybody you would want to and all
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you had to do was write down the name of
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that person inside that book in any
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other circumstance such a premise would
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come off as immensely silly but death
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note manages to turn it into something
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that is Delight y cerebral of its many
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cerebral elements the most relevant is
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the anime's ongoing discussion
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surrounding the nature of Justice in the
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mind of the anime's main character Light
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Yagami Justice is the promise of death
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to anybody who would commit any sort of
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crime if the end he seeks is the world
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devoid of crime and the evil that
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motivates it then any means of achieving
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that end are Justified the anime offers
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up arguments both in favor and against
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this approach though light's actions do
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bring the rate of crime down worldwide
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and in turn makes the world a better
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place for moral honest people the lack
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of Mercy as a balance to lights form of
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justice is unnerving like I think most
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people would say that light's choice to
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kill nonviolent offenders like thieves
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is not appropriate the same can be said
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when he killed the innocent FBI ey
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agents who are trying to catch him but
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these are just my arguments at no point
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does the anime take a concrete moral
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position against light this is
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especially true for the characters l m
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and n and the authorities they work with
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in order to try and catch light they
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often seem less concerned with Justice
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and more concerned with winning thus the
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audience must draw from the various
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Arguments for and against like methods
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in order to determine for themselves
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what True Justice is Death Note has
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perpetuated this philosophical debate
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with a Non-Stop fervency for the last
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two decades and for that reason alone it
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belongs on this list number four Ghost
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in the Shell Standalone
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complex I mean duh it's Ghost in the
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Shell number three okay fine a bit of
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analysis While most forms of sci-fi
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speculate on the way that future
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technologies will impact our current
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ways of life the Ghost in the Shell
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franchise and especially Standalone
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complex Fosters its own unique identity
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by trying to be as complex as possible I
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swear to God that wasn't meant to be a
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pun so much so that I would argue it
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sometimes becomes too complex for its
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own good though I would argue that this
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is more of an issue for the second
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season rather than the first but if you
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can keep up with it which you should be
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able to do the major majority of the
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time you will find a series that
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continuously innovates on the classic
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Sci-fi formula creating stories that
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will still be relevant in the next 50
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years due to their sociopolitical
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Intrigue and of course the philosophical
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questions they provoke for instance what
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if a piece of technology could plant
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little cameras in your eyes and the
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recordings they capture could then be
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used against you or other people by
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police what sort of privacy protections
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would need to be put in place if the
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powers that b would even allow that sort
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of thing how about in season 1 episode
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11 where certain children who have had
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their brains augmented suddenly become
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incapable of any kind of socialization
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how do we rehabilitate these children
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and more importantly how do we Shield
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them from those who would take advantage
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of their vulnerable state again while
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the conflicts between technology and
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humanity is obviously familiar to sci-fi
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Ghost in the Shell consistently finds
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new and entertaining ways to present
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them all with the singular goal of
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fostering the viewer's capacity for
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individual thought of fostering their
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own Standalone complex that's that's
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literally what the title means it's not
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me making a pun okay it's a little bit
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me making a pun number three Psychopaths
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strictly the first season let's make
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that clear real quick seriously the drop
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off and quality that was season 2 of of
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psychopaths makes season 2 of the
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promise to Neverland look more like a
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Picasso instead of the toddler's finger
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painting that it is that said season 1
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of psychopaths is so unbelievably
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amazing that it easily merits the third
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spot on this list though it takes some
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familiar cues from classic Sci-fi like
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Brave New World Minority Report and
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Ready Player 1 it mixes all of them
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together into an Innovative
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philosophical tale that is as brilliant
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as it is terrifyingly timely in the
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world of psychopaths not only has
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Artificial Intelligence been perfected
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it has birthed something that one might
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reasonably call a God one known as the
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Cil system it is an AI that has
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virtually solved to all of Humanity's
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biggest problems there is no more
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starvation everybody has a job crime is
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virtually not existent and Mental Health
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Care is universal it seems like the
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dream of Heaven on Earth has been
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realized what nobody seems to ask though
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is how the cibil system works the answer
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to that question is what unravels the
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quote unquote Paradise that cibil has
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gifted Humanity now unfortunately I
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can't explain why this is nor can I
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explain much of what makes the anime so
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philosophical without spoiling key plot
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points the most that I can say is that
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no form of artificial intelligence can
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perfectly address the infinite extent of
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human irrationality where the depths of
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psychopath's philosophical inquiry lie
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are in determining to what extent
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technology should be used to Corral
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human irrationality in order to make a
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better world and to what extent it
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shouldn't that is where this anime's
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genius lies number two Kino's Journey
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though I don't believe it reaches the
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philosophical depths of the
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aforementioned Psychopaths Ghost in the
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Shell or my number one entry Kino's
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Journey surpasses every anime on this
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list in terms of philosophical quantity
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accessibility and doing the most to
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birth one's inner philosopher the anime
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follows Kino a 15-year-old girl as she
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goes on a never-ending journey across
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multiple countries she spurred on this
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journey due to a tragic event from her
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past one that made her question
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everything she thought she knew about
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the world in order to rectify this
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trauma she visits as many countries as
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she can and engages with their cultures
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in doing this she will take the best
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elements from each culture and ideally
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adopts a new value system for herself as
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I noted in my video dedicated to this
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anime Kino seems to be doing this in
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order to embody the nichan idea of the
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free spirit somebody who holds no
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attachment to any established set of
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values any pre-established conception of
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of Good and Evil rather in the nitian
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fashion she seeks a value system Beyond
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Good and Evil which is predicated by her
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one and only attachment The Pursuit Of
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Truth by seeing the world through Kino's
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eyes the audience is slowly taught to
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adopt her ethic in a couple of Genius
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ways the formula goes something like
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this Kino visits a country and Witnesses
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a custom that the average person would
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either find appealing or appalling on
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first glance then Kino learns something
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about why that custom exists which tends
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to flip that initial knee-jerk reaction
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on its head at no point does Kino offer
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a value judgment of her own in order to
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encourage the audience to feel one way
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she almost always maintains an air of
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ambivalence thus the audience are always
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forced to come to their own conclusions
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in doing this they will ideally become
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their own free spirit very few works of
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fiction do as much to nurture one's
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philosophical side as Kino's Journey
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it's even rarer to see one do it in a
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way that appeals to every type of
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philosopher from Scholars to newcomers
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it's a masterpiece of the genre one that
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I can totally understand taking the
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number one spot on other people's lists
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yet there is one that in my opinion just
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barely gets ahead of it purely based on
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death depth number one ero proxy
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watching ero proxy is like meditation
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there's a way to do it correctly and
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incorrectly if you do it incorrectly
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you'll just be sitting there taking up
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space and precious oxygen but if you do
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it correctly you will supposedly achieve
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levels of consciousness you never
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thought possible I went through a
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similar experience when I first tried to
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meditate and when I first tried to watch
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ero proxy in both cases I found it
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extremely boring so much so that I
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couldn't get past the first few episodes
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despite trying multiple times what made
00:24:38
my attitude flip however was when I
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stopped trying to impose my will on both
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when I stopped expecting a certain
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result when I allowed my will to be
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fully subsumed by the meditative process
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and ero proxy's peculiar narrative style
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I discovered like I said in my video on
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the anime an infinitely unfolding
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Kaleidoscope of philosophical Splendor
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ero proxy is a masterfully crafted
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sci-fi story that draws upon a variety
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of philosophical and metaphysical
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Traditions including postmodernism
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idealism and esoteric religions like
00:25:17
gnosticism and Alchemy it draws upon
00:25:20
these Traditions to try and answer what
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is probably the most famous and most
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difficult philosophical question of the
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last 200 years in the 19th century the
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aforementioned n made the famous
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Proclamation that God was dead and we
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had killed him this was due to the
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Advent of Science and Enlightenment
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philosophy which n believed had
00:25:44
thoroughly discredited God's existence
00:25:47
though some people view n's Proclamation
00:25:49
as something positive in reality n
00:25:53
thought all hell would break loose after
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all Western morality had been predicated
00:25:58
on the notion that there was some
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Transcendent meaning to acting morally
00:26:02
in this life if that's removed what is
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to stop some people from becoming
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nihilistic and resentful to the point of
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violence when life becomes too hard the
00:26:12
authors of ergoproxy as well as the
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characters they write barrage that
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question by shooting every possible
00:26:20
answer they can give at it all of which
00:26:22
are based on those aforementioned
00:26:24
philosophical and religious Traditions
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they do this out of a sort of
00:26:28
desperation to avoid the pain and
00:26:31
resentment that can come from suffering
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in a Godless Universe which one can only
00:26:36
surmised to be the case in ero proxy's
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post-apocalyptic landscape I will say
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thankfully that reliable answers are
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found ones that the characters discover
00:26:47
and ones that the viewer will discover
00:26:49
through their own subjective viewing
00:26:51
experience and the answers received are
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enough to put ero proxy at the top of
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the list
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if you want to learn more about what
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some of those answers are make sure to
00:27:02
check out my video on Ergo Proxy which I
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will link in the description box below
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make sure to hit the like button if you
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liked this video make sure to leave a
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comment if you agree or disagree with
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any of my picks or if there's an anime I
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completely forgot to include just please
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keep it civil we're all anime fans here
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until my next video remember as always
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and as per usual stay yellow
