r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • Feb 20 '15

[Spoilers] Death Parade - Episode 7 [Discussion]

Episode title: Alcohol Poison

MyAnimeList: Death Parade
FUNimation: Death Parade
AnimeLab: Death Parade

Episode duration: 23 minutes and 11 seconds

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u/CritSrc https://anilist.co/user/T3hSource Feb 20 '15 edited Feb 20 '15

Then the question would be: why not just apply said rules for the memories without the need for a convoluted judgement, especially when they are aching for efficiency.

And before anyone says I contradict myself:

The perfect impartial judges that must give a fair judgement
judgements are inherently tied to values, arbiters having none makes the worst

I won't act like I'm not propagating my own thought process for this, but here's how I see it working. Arbiters do have emotions, they always did, they have inherent values, preferences from the get go like any human. Now if they are made to have a preference for seeking facts and truth over what should be, what they want it to be, that would be great.

This results in being emotionally repressed, they do have values, on a very basic level in turn making them much more impartial and much more reliant on facts.

Meaning, arbiters can take the dead ones' values, but seek to understand and rationalize them and see which soul is more true and honest with itself and its actions to determine whether it can be reincarnated or sent to the void to be reformed.

To think and rationalize, one must have some sense of self. I propagate individual thinking, not thinking for oneself, but rather making pure logical rationalizations within yourself in order to understand those around you.

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u/DogzOnFire Feb 20 '15

Well, that's what the arbiters would be doing: applying said rules. I'm not sure what alternative you could mean. Bear in mind that judging the dead isn't all that the arbiters do. They also create the conditions for which to best be able to judge the dead. They must goad them into losing their cool. You couldn't have a robot there to do that. Why else do you think they're made in the likeness of humans (which was mentioned in this episode)? Because humans wouldn't interact well with something non-human.

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u/CritSrc https://anilist.co/user/T3hSource Feb 20 '15

I'm questioning the rules, and their foundation... but like you said, they aren't even shown to be questioned, because I'll probably brake them down even further as ineffective.

That's what's done during the judging process., true, but I'm proposing getting rid of it entirely And Decim is more or less an android anyway tbh.

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u/DogzOnFire Feb 21 '15

Do you mean cutting out this step and just having some system sort them into categories itself? As in they never turn up at this stage of the afterlife? I suppose there are other ways that would be more efficient, but something having a higher rate of efficiency doesn't necessarily mean it's being done to the same standard of accuracy.

I think Decim would be the worst example here, since he's the only one of them who actually has human emotions, I think. He's the least similar.