Quote Originally Posted by Lurina View Post
If someone rounded up everyone with a criminal record in a city and shot them, then you could certainly say that other means wouldn't have been as effective at preventing crime, but I doubt you'd agree with it.
This got me to thinking about Minority Report and that whole deal of "you're going to commit a crime in the future so I'm gonna put you down now." I feel like I've been hearing that sort of thing a lot especially in the Dead Ends dungeon where people like to say the ancients would've ended up like the star without strife. It doesn't sit well with me at all to say "well you're gonna end up like this other planet so I'm going to judge you right now." What's to stop anyone from disapproving of the way any society lives and taking matters into their own hands? Judging you because you just don't have just the right amount of suffering needed to not focus on the meaning of life so much that you want to die (because you're too busy paying bills and taking care of your family to contemplate it?). That means that anyone can look at a society and find them lacking, and as long as that person ends up winning in the end, then it doesn't matter what suffering that society goes through in the end.

Also the time travel elements really made me feel like we basically had no choice in anything. We were always gonna go back in time and everything was always gonna end up where it is now. So then if everything is fated to happen, we really are just puppets.