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| Editorial: Help! My Roommate's a Villain!; 1/6/10 | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 6 2010, 06:56 PM (7,581 Views) | |
| Ryu | Jan 6 2010, 06:56 PM Post #1 |
YEAH-UH!
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Ok, folks, I was in my office, speaking with my various sources when I received this little editorial in my daily delivery of fan mail and subscription payments! Now, the subject matter is kinda... off-beat, however I've never been one to silence the people when they want to be heard. So I decided to post it on the Newswire for your reading pleasure! If any of you readers out there want follow in this guy's footsteps and send me an editorial, then feel free to! (Ryu Note: Seriously, I'll post in-character editorials, just PM them to me). Today's editorial is being provided by a gentleman named Grahm Lowtide, a self-proclaimed Villain Philosopher and Ideologist! HELP! My Roommate's a Villain! There has been a large amount of worry amongst the student body lately concerning the recent surge in evil throughout the campus, specifically with this year's new student body. Many students have been so worried about the recent surge in villainous activity and the actions of their fellow students that they have even gone as far as to transfer dorm rooms out of a worry that their new dorm-mate will slit their throats in the night, and the increase in the number of these types of individuals has begun to strain the faculty's ability to keep order in the school. Even beyond this new cultural movement, it appears that something has begun to stir within the student body, as if a person or group of people have been converting students to a darker path, and considering that this is, in fact, a school for meta-humans means that there is worry amongst the school's benefactors and rumblings amongst alumni that AHS has, at least in part, become a spawning pool for Super Villains. Is this simply a new fad, something that will pass in time, or is it the beginnings of a brand-new culture throughout the world, like the gangsters, hippies, and communists that came before them? Since humanity first started banding together over eight thousand years ago, men have been making rules to protect one another against the evils that their fellow man can do, and since then this has been one of the very few constants of civilization throughout the world. However, there has been so much social reform within the last few centuries that perhaps a new view on the evil in humanity is emerging as well. Consider that within the last one hundred years women, immigrants, people of color, and homosexuals have all fought for and received new and equal rights among society as a whole. Perhaps this is just the next step in social evolution and equality? Most moralists would state that it is a choice for a person to be evil or not, but that same argument has been made about homosexuality, and in both cases the people in question who are being scrutinized most times would state the opposite, that they were born this way and that they shall always be this way. And this time, there is actually long-established scientific fact that supports this argument. For example, diagnosed Sociopaths are one of the most common mental "illnesses" on the planet, much more common and much less severe then other such "sicknesses". The only difference between a sociopath and a normal human being is a different moral compass, and a different view on the worth of others. The argument that such people are to an extent evil as opposed to mentally unsound has been made in the past, and most historians believe that a common trait of most infamous men and women in history was that they were mostly all sociopaths, and they would have to be at least that in order to perform the actions that they did. So for the sake of viewing things from their point of view, let us assume that sociopaths are not mentally unsound, but instead they have "villainous" or "evil" orientations, similar to how all people have a sexual orientation of hetero, homo, or something in between or exclusive to both. What would happen if such people started to realize that they were all one rather amoral and potentially anti-social group, and that more and more of them were beginning to appear and announce themselves all over the globe in a more human light as opposed to the super villains and serial murderers of before? What if the people of this evil orientation decided that they had a grievance having to do with the way they are treated by the rest of society, and that there were enough of them throughout the world that they had the power to have that grievance addressed? Or, suppose that these people with unknown-to-them evil orientations heard about others leading an evil lifestyle and this knowledge may possibly resonate within them to fill in a missing piece of the infinite jigsaw puzzle that is each person on earth, and that then they decide to try this brand-new lifestyle for themselves to see if they like the taste? Perhaps even you, reader, are beginning to feel this tug within you, as if you have just discovered something you did not know about yourself, what then? Who do you go to to talk about this, and how will this change who you are? These are just some of the questions that are facing us today, students of Anime High. To the St. Lilian's Academy students who are reading this, do not believe that things will be any different for you due to some petty little thing that you use to place yourself above the Anime High students, you will have to face these very same problems soon enough. If these people are in fact evil by birth, then perhaps we should in fact look at what to do about these individuals as a culture as opposed to a group of "troubled" individuals, and it will be necessary to look at how this will effect the way the world works from here on forward. This will definitely be very difficult for the individuals in question, because this sort of a revelation will change them forever. Just imagine what confessing to their parents will be like! As for answers, I cannot emphasize enough that these students with evil orientations will need the support of their fellow students in the AHS and St. Lilian's community in the trying times ahead if they will have any chance of developing into adulthood without the negative problems that such people have always faced. But this leads to another extremely important question, which for now I leave up to the individual reader to decide; should we help these people develop in the name of forward-thinking and social progress, or shall we treat them as we always have in order to protect society as we see it today? Grahm Lowtide is an AHS Sophomore from The United States of America. His major fields of study are sociology, moral philosophy, and leadership theory. He works part-time with the Tokyo P.D. as a Criminologist and Villainologist, and is a frequent visitor to the Supernatural Library. |
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