#one piece is made of different stuff than what your average shounen dude is into ig

[sailing-ever-west]

saw a youtube video earlier that was like "what if the strawhats are actually the villains?? 😱😱" and their reasoning was that Luffy destroys governments & causes chaos and I just sat there like. first of all one of the largest themes of one piece is questioning the very concept of heroes and villains with a protagonist who refuses to call himself a hero and is unabashedly a criminal + self-proclaimed government "heroes" who do objectively heinous acts legally, and then both good and bad people on both sides. like this isn't an unaddressed issue nobody's thought about. it's the point of the show. how did you even get this far

but bad media literacy aside,,, imagine thinking that dismantling governments is worse than the governments themselves doing slavery and genocide???? like are you a one piece villain yourself?????