#outside of just not having it! yuno does not deserve to be in milgram! 💞💞💞

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tw: suicide discussion / mention

yuno exists in a weird position for me because she's a well-written interesting character with a unique personality who's an amazing foil to haruka and the strange details of her case are cool to pick apart but then like. i keep coming back to the fact her crime is abortion which feels so... hm.

i think for every prisoner you should be able to take a step back and ask yourself, "what morals is milgram trying to get me to question?

for instance, in the case of fuuta, do you believe there should be punishment for individuals who didn't directly murder their victims but instead drove them to suicide? should fuuta be punished despite it being a group effort? if it's a yes then what about kazui's case where it's his inactivity which lead to his wife's death? what must you factor in for one crime to be okay when another isn't?

then you question yuno and it's like. just super uncomfortable questions?

"is abortion murder?" no. anything other than no has gotten countless people killed or forced into suffering through the traumatic process of birth for a child they didn't want.

"does it matter that yuno, despite being eighteen, is a high-school girl?" anyone who is pro-life does not fucking care if the person in question is in high-school. their thought process is "well she could've given up the child for adoption" without taking into account that carrying a child for nine months sucks and pushing an entire baby out of your hole can literally kill you and the literal hell that is the foster care system.

so like. if you're a normal person and voting her innocent because abortion isn't a crime, what's there to tempt you to vote her guilty?

"she's actually a cold person who's not super happy all the time!" whatever? that's literally nothing compared to threatening physical violence like other prisoners have. she's not hurting anyone and even provided mahiru a wheelchair. she's still nice just not overtly so.

"she isn't grateful for her innocent vote!" its not that she wants to be guilty it's that she wants to be treated like a serious adult.

"she's on a path of self-destructive behavior and is going to continue the cycle again" what the fuck do you want me to do about that!? i have no idea how voting is going to affect her psyche and if i don't even believe abortion is a crime then why would i risk getting her killed to play savior.

its just. you see what im talking about right?? im not going crazy here??