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edge--effects · 8 months

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needdddd to have a conversation with fictional post-apocalyptic death god johnny knives about the ethics of their brand of vigilante justice

they were a petty criminal pre-apocalypse and pre-immortality, right? what made them decide to flip the script? become judge, jury, and executioner-by-proxy? someone deserving of the title your honor?

also, what even makes a person worthy of death in the eyes of johnny knives? are there lesser, non-death punishments? because an individual person killing another is one thing, but putting yourself and your acolytes in a position to decide who lives and who dies (or even, more simply, who’s guilty and who’s innocent) is another thing altogether

#applying my little prison abolitionist media analysis lens where it probably wasn’t meant to be applied #brb riding out into the desert with 2-5 of my best comrades to make a small blood sacrifice call down a god and have a heated debate #edit: ALSO i say vigilante justice but is that accurate when there’s a whole religion around it? or is it just a reproduction of policing #these are questions for johnny knives not critiques of the text persay. all part of rotating the gods in my head #wasteland pony express #wlpe

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