What is the most important message you wanted to send with this story?
Well, for one, I think people can and should learn from everything. Deeming certain things important and deeming other things unimportant and trivial could lead to catastrophic results. But I could summarize the major points, themes that are in this story and commentate on them.
First of all…the incest. The incest is such a huge part of the story lmao. The mystery literally wouldn’t work because without it, the parents wouldn’t act the way they did and Hori wouldn’t have her motive. But aside from having it there for mystery reasons I just think it’s a very interesting topic. Look, I am a scientific person, I know genetically mutated children are a terrible sight. And there are instances of certain family members having huge power over the other partners in an incestuous relationship and sometimes those incestuous relations aren’t consensual at all. However, I don’t think those circumstances matter in this discussion because that is clearly not indicative of Hori and Mew’s relationship.
There are people like Hori and Mew in the real world, a lot of people actually. I certainly don’t encourage incestuous relations but at the same time I value individual freedom a lot. And I would rather prefer it if people wouldn’t force their societal beliefs and customs on individual people especially when what they are doing doesn’t matter to them as a whole. I also do feel that Hori and Mew’s love for one another is genuine. And that’s important too, because I think people’s fear of intimacy, fear of something like incestuous relations happening have caused people to became so distant from one another, they have killed their love in the name of looking good in the eyes of society.
This story also shows a lot of people are just such assholes to one another just because of the relationship they had and the opinions they hold. Almost as if they don’t actually care about these people and were just waiting to unleash their anger and hatred on these people as soon as they found a little bit of justification for acting like that. My understanding is that everyone in a relationship gave consent, what is the problem?
People need to have nuance and people shouldn’t let their fears control them and their actions. A lot of governments and societies want to punish these types of relationships because they are paranoid about other people copying and repeating these types of taboos. The way I see it, those types of thoughts come to people’s minds because people themselves have a bad habit of copying others, following the herd. So when certain groups commit acts like incest that is technically consensual but could have huge ramifications if a lot of people copy those types of behaviors and participate in similar actions, people get paranoid because they think their children, their family members the society as a whole might start copying them. So they come up with the most brutal and brain dead solution possible, which is punishment.
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It’s so weird how humanity as a whole has decided that punishment is the best teacher. When in reality punishment never teaches anything, only gives the impression that might is right, weak people can never punish the strong, only the strong punish the weak. Besides, if what they have done was truly wrong, why isn’t there any way to convey that wrongness other than violence and locking people in jail? If your arguments and your way of viewing life, your vision is truly right, then simply sharing that vision to those people would be enough to convince others to stop their way, no? Tyranny requires constant effort while truth and righteousness comes naturally. Your way isn’t right if it feels unnatural. If your way makes you suffer, if your way comes out of forcefulness, hard effort then it isn’t the right way.
Do people seriously think being isolated in a prison cell and treated like dirt will somehow make someone less harmful, more loving? The fact of the matter is people are cruel and stupid. There is a lot of “oh you gotta care more about the heart than the head. If you care about the head too much then the heart becomes empty.” message in media.
That is a true message, it truly is a helpful message. But at the same time, in this world, a lot of people are dumb and heartless. And sometimes dumbness and heartlessness feed one another. Instead of trying to connect with other people, some people just think “yeah, lemme just put people I don’t like in jail, that will surely fix everything!” People are afraid of connecting with one another, with losing their fears and ego. And that fear and ego makes people dumb.
That might have been a long tangent but that rant truly conveys my inner feelings on these situations. Yeah, I’m not gonna pretend to have an unbiased stance on this. It’s better to die on your hill rather than other people talking for you and assume things about you.