Quote Originally Posted by Alleo View Post
I just think about how I would feel if a mass murderer (maybe killed someone you know and love) gets out of prison because they bumped their head against the wall too often and lost their memories.
Well... One way to look at it (and the way SE will likely go with if they DO decide to use this as a method of "redemption") is that the mass murderer has DIED. Their body is still up and moving around, but someone completely new is inside of it.

It's not really redemption at all. Yotsuyu died and a new person named Tsuyu was born within her body. Yes, people might be resentful - but it's the same kind of resentment they would have felt if Yotsuyu had died before they had a chance to punish her to their satisfaction. The big difference is that now there's this Yotsuyu-shaped innocent person handy that they can take out their frustrations on.

That's the way that these amnesia-induced-innocence stories generally play out. The stories often try to play it all up as a big moral grey area, but honestly, there's no grey at all. If Yotsuyu's memories are truly gone, then punishing the new person she has become for the crimes of a person who no longer exists is evil, plain and simple. Such punishment would only be pursued by individuals who either don't believe the change has happened, or are refusing to believe it because they want to satisfy their thirst for vengeance and don't much care who they have to hurt to get that satisfaction. It's become revenge by proxy - taking out revenge on an innocent third party, because the individual you'd like to take revenge on is out of reach.