The true evil in this story is the rushed ending. It sure puts the L in BL right there. There needs to be some sort of resolution, otherwise it leads the readers to the conclusion that the ends justify the means.
MC in the beginning is someone philosophers will refer to as a strict deontologist, which is a person that judges whether an action is right or wrong based on the principles and intention of that action, rather than the consequences of that action. He fights for doing what is good, even if those actions are laid to waste every time. Then later, when he becomes corrupted gradually by the ML, he becomes a consequentialist, which is a person who judges whether an action is right or wrong based solely on its outcomes or consequences. He abandons his naive past for results. He will go down the path of hell solely to bring down the system of evil that permeates the order of society, personified by the ML.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I don't exactly think that colluding with your rapist to carry out the same crimes to others that jailed your own family exactly justifies the ending the MC wants to achieve. Unless you are doing something like Snape killing Dumbledore to become part of Voldemort's inner circle, I think going down a slippery slope by sacrificing all your ideals is never justified as we cannot know everything. Then again, there are just too little examples for me to know what the MC did in these two years to justify whether he is still a "good" person. I won't say that the current MC is a good person, but rather that he is better informed on what is evil.
Although there is one thing that I will agree on in this story, that this evil system will always fuck us up the ass. Still overall, really thought provoking, the overarching themes came through as per the author's intention.
The true evil in this story is the rushed ending. It sure puts the L in BL right there. There needs to be some sort of resolution, otherwise it leads the readers to the conclusion that the ends justify the means.
MC in the beginning is someone philosophers will refer to as a strict deontologist, which is a person that judges whether an action is right or wrong based on the principles and intention of that action, rather than the consequences of that action. He fights for doing what is good, even if those actions are laid to waste every time. Then later, when he becomes corrupted gradually by the ML, he becomes a consequentialist, which is a person who judges whether an action is right or wrong based solely on its outcomes or consequences. He abandons his naive past for results. He will go down the path of hell solely to bring down the system of evil that permeates the order of society, personified by the ML.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I don't exactly think that colluding with your rapist to carry out the same crimes to others that jailed your own family exactly justifies the ending the MC wants to achieve. Unless you are doing something like Snape killing Dumbledore to become part of Voldemort's inner circle, I think going down a slippery slope by sacrificing all your ideals is never justified as we cannot know everything. Then again, there are just too little examples for me to know what the MC did in these two years to justify whether he is still a "good" person. I won't say that the current MC is a good person, but rather that he is better informed on what is evil.
Although there is one thing that I will agree on in this story, that this evil system will always fuck us up the ass. Still overall, really thought provoking, the overarching themes came through as per the author's intention.