knights🌙⋆⭒˚🐈

erratum: "The conflict and rift in Higuruma’s character ORIGINATE in his search for social justice and his wager on the Culling Game system"

(I didn't proofread the thing)

erratum is a funny word

erratum: "so that if the system were more equitably designed, people WOULD BE afforded with greater freedom of choice"

bsky.app/profile/fkak...

whipped up another Higuruma post. atp I should probably just write a full-blown long essay

accountability that is not his—these are his rising from the gloom of his despair and negativity into light. Higuruma finds not a superior system but something that discredits his pessimism: that there might be hope. 20/20

unlike Itadori he decides to leave behind that cause, as he fails and is now a reprehensible criminal. Yet, his admission of his guilt and accountability, his return to his ideal—as a changed and guilty man, and his discovery that someone like Itadori exists, one willing to carry an 19/20

Higuruma regards himself as weak for possessing corruptibility himself, he is no exception, giving in to his impulse of killing the judge and prosecution lawyer, but also for having, in the first place, the desire, arguably hypocritical, to shed light on human darkness like Itadori does. Yet, 18/20

personal. The way the system is designed pushes people into crimes and into an aggravation of their lack and faults, so that if the system were more equitably designed, people are afforded with greater freedom of choice, and with it, the choice to do the right and just course of action. 17/20

‘selfless’ but rather having clear limitations. Two, when he says, “The weakness of victims. The weakness of criminals,” he puts these along the same line, yet not as a strict equivalence, but as an underpinning of the awareness that human errors are more systemic and less individual or 16/20

and not too later, matures into a tough kind of feeling, bruised and aching, often faced with the toughest dilemmas, not without being held back by reservations, anxieties, complaints, not without being burdened by past blows and present doubts. Ultimately, it ends not being all-giving and 15/20

fluctuates with its congenial aspects and less congenial ones as it deals with the most difficult aspects of human beings. Hence, it is a choice, as it needs to be constantly worked out and adjusted in order to maintain it. It begins as soft and budding, idealistic, untouched by raw reality, 14/20

about empathy? One, empathy is a difficult, arduous emotion rather than easy or tranquil. It implies a kind of relationship with human fallibility, and in its utmost test, human depravity. A kind of relationship that is constantly a process rather than a fixed feeling. As a process, it 13/20

you'll just find blinding nothingness.” His despair and hopelessness, which prior are probably building up under the surface, emerge and take control. It begins to grow negativism and derision towards human nature. What does Higuruma’s emotional arc as a public lawyer and social worker suggest 12/20

linger unscathed; it builds up resentment, disillusionment, despair, as all his honest labor gets enveloped by the corruption of the system, and even, the fallibility and corruption that rest in humans; as he tells Itadori, “The darkness before you is just that. Even if you shine light on it, 11/20

corruption of human individuals, yet still, for a time, it is little tested. As he says, “Human depravity, which no other creatures possess, needs to be cherished.” Yet, as case after case of conviction builds up, all of which without mercy, most of which unjust and wrong, his empathy cannot 10/20

while it appears ‘too intellectual’ or ‘too cool’, it is not weak. Behind such empathy stands a true idealist, not blind or naive, but aware of systemic corruption yet willing to fight and find a loophole however slim the possibility. His empathy is also not unaware of the fallibility and 9/20

such can sustain such a difficult task of little hope against a system designed to churn out scapegoats in order to preserve itself. This is his original or core stance, what is little tested or has yet to be tested by too few ups and too many downs. His empathy, then, begins unceasingly open; 8/20

a life commitment, an incapacity to turn away from or decline defendants, relatively culpable or completely innocent. There is undeniable egotism to this selfless act, but such egotism can be simply defined as unstoppable will, even mulish stubbornness or one-track-minded obsession, for only 7/20

ladder, taking up the most arduous and low-paid role of a defense lawyer, a display of idealism and ethical integrity uncommon among lawyers and judicial workers. While his dedication to justice and law is intellectual, cool, and disinterested, it is not without passion—passion expressed as 6/20

‘return to his roots’ or return to himself. Higuruma, as any lawyer should, regards justice and law, ideally, as inseparable and intertwined, and that it is the duty of the justice system to serve and fulfill the law. He dedicates himself to the principle without an ambition to climb the 5/20

considered a moment of weakness, it is not undemonstrative of the vital aspects of his character, and one of which is what empathy as a human mental state and emotion is, including what it entails and how his empathy differs from that of Itadori—a difference which also becomes key to his 4/20

reversed—another layer of despair and disillusionment to his already unbearable repository, so that it is seemingly a going off the deep end, or a succumbing to loss of self-control and bout of ‘insanity’. So while his wager on the Culling Game as a systematic, unsurpassable system may be 3/20

kills the judge and prosecutor lawyer and subsequently 20 sorcerers and fights against Itadori. The wager occurs as a direct result of the last straw—the unjust conviction of his client with the death penalty by the second trial, a verdict unlikely to be tried at the highest court, let alone 2/20

The conflict and rift in Higuruma’s character originates in his search for social justice and his wager on the Culling Game system as a case study for a possible replacement for the human justice system, which he finds corrupt and effete. The wager is merely interim, which takes after he 🧵 1/20

BREAKING: Huge numbers of homes in Israel have been destroyed in the war, leaving distraught Israelis wondering whose homes they can steal next, given they've already destroyed every home in Gaza 😭😭😭

…fighting to un-hear…

Here’s Catch by @burgi.bsky.social
for #smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Didn't know the courtroom mallet could be such a cool fighting weapon. Episode score: 10/10

Absolutely! The more miserable they are the sexier they get lol

Hot daddies. 💘