[Very deliberate (and deliberated over) video]

[closedcircuit]

[Ky's sitting in his apartment. It's afternoon now, and he's spent since midnight thinking about this, almost entirely off the network. But it's clear that the solution isn't just thinking, and that he can't implement his desired solution on his own.]

It's become apparent that one thing this place is suffering from is a severe lack of justice. There always remained the question of once we caught the murderer what could be done to keep them separate in what passes for society here, to keep them from hurting another.

And now, failed joke or not, a woman lies dead. And we do know who is responsible.

Are we really going to sit back, be distressed and discomfited, but do nothing?

Or is it time to set up some system of justice? -- Not vengeance, that's not what I'm recommending, but there needs to a rehabilitation process.

Comments

[closedcircuit]

Firstly, killing isn't permanent here. Secondly, had anyone cared about your father, then it wouldn't have been solved by his death. Thirdly, that makes this solely an issue of strength, and the person with the ability to kill the other isn't always in the right.

[bakegarasu]

[He shrugs.]

It's a better system than long trials that never go anywhere, imprisonment that only makes the problem worse, and any so-called rehabilitation efforts that only mess people up more.

[closedcircuit]

Not when those things you mentioned don't have to be the case, when people can be successfully reintegrated as productive members of society.

I'm not opposed to death in all circumstances, when someone is too much of a threat to continue, but in this case it doesn't mean anything.

[bakegarasu]

Have you ever seen that actually work, though?

[closedcircuit]

Yes.