History Headscratchers / PsychoPass

** Kasei reaches for the Dominator presumably to paralyze Makishima but he already resists and escapes. There is nothing mentioning that the brain transfer must be voluntary so Makishima's brain is still valuable to Sibyl. Sibyl's revised plan now is possibly to capture Makishima once more and skip negotiation to go straight to extracting his brain. To accomplish this, Akane's Dominator is locked to paralyzer mode to capture Makishima alive. It is easier to shoot Makishima with a Dominator than to find another way to kill him. So Sibyl isn't taking on any additional risk by arranging for a capture instead of extermination.

** It's also part of the series' overall critique of modern Japanese society: See the page image for {{Kawaisa}}. Possibly related to Sibyl as an extreme nanny-state, with its pacified/easily-amused citizens/children.

* Why wouldn't the Sibyl System seek to exterminate Makishima after finding out he's not on board with being part of the Hive Mind? Wouldn't the risk of revealing the System's true nature outweigh the need to add him to the collective?

* The Sibyl System has caused their own society to become completely paranoid about their mental state. With the citizens so shielded and infantilized, even the slightest trauma poses a serious danger to someone's Crime Coefficient. So why in the name of ''actual sanity'' would they design the Dominators to kill people in the most gory, traumatic and visually distressing way possible??

** It was implied Sibyl helped them in secret, as having them come to Japan allowed them to be easily executed and lead Akane on a wild goose chase to see Shinya, [[spoiler:where it would allow Sibyl to have Nicholas Wong kill both of them, tying up two loose ends easily, while they work on their objective of controlling SEAUN and then killing Nicholas. This nearly happens perfectly in Sibyl's favor too.]]

*** What bugs me even more is that - how the hell are Dominators able to judge Sibyl system (a collective mind), even though they could not yet judge Kamui (also a collective mind)? It would make much more sense if Kamui's Dominator didn't recognise Sibyl before it made a decision to accept collective Psycho-Passes, because the situation in which Sibyl can measure ''itself'' but ''not'' Kamui is completely ridiculous.

*** What bugs me more is that - how the hell are Dominators able to judge Sibyl system (a collective mind), even though they could not yet judge Kamui (also a collective mind)? It would make much more sense if Kamui's Dominator didn't recognise Sibyl before it made a decision to accept collective Psycho-Passes, because the situation in which Sibyl can measure ''itself'' but ''not'' Kamui is completely ridiculous.

*** What bugs me more is that - how the hell are Dominators able to judge Sibyl system (a collective mind), even though they could not yet judge Kamui (also a collective mind)? It would make much more sense if Kamui's Dominator didn't recognise Sibyl before it made a decision to accept collective Psycho-Passes, because the situation in which Sibyl can measure ''itself'' but ''not'' Kamui is completely ridiculous.

* How could the Sibyl system have possibly been created? The only brains that can be used are those of the criminally asymptotic, but those people can only be discovered by reading their Psycho Pass--which is only possible when the Sibyl system to already be in place.

** I'm really surprised they didn't just set Crime Coefficient 100 as a default for criminally asymptomatic people, enough to trigger Paralyzer mode. That would allow them to capture and recruit them immediately, without bothering with this roundabout way of doing things.

* It doesn't seem like the movie answered it, but... who financed the terrorists in the opening? Kougami was quite surprised they were able to make the journey from Southeast Asia to Japan, and the equipment they had like the visors was far more advanced than what the ragtag militia had.

* How could the Sybil System's psycho-pass be measured? Aren't they all criminally asymptomatic? Couldn't they all just make their psycho-passes Zero, and thus avoid Kamui's judgment?

** It was never stated that he has [[spoiler: 184 ''separate'' organs in his body. The doctor outright said his brain is pieced together from 7 others. With that in mind, that means he actually has parts of other people's organs instead of actually having 184 wholly different organs in his body. The largest organ a human has is skin. I'm sure that the majority of the 184 parts in him are actually skin grafts to reconstruct his body. After being in a plane crash, I'm pretty sure he may have been burned badly and thus the doctor had to source undamaged skin from most of the other bodies. That being said, it is pretty certain that his major organs (like heart, lungs, liver, etc.) probably are donors as well. For the organ rejection question: the procedure used on Kamui was a very experimental process that certainly would have taken that into account. Considering that Makishima said in the first season that Japan has some of the most advanced medical technology in the world, it can be inferred that anti-rejection medicine is good enough that Kamui could plausibly survive that many transplants.]]

** This will likely never be answered unless the movie has a big twist. The only way for the system to truly know if she's CA is if Akane commits a criminal act and her CC remains very low instead of rising to where it should be if a normal person was going to commit the same crime. There's no reason for Sybil to investigate if Akane is CA since being good at stress management is just an ideal trait for an Investigator.

** This will likely never be answered unless the movie has a big twist. The only way for the system to truly know if she's CA is if Akane commits a criminal act and her CC remains very low instead of rising to where it should be if a normal person was going to commit the same crime. There's no reason for Sybil to investigate if Akane is CA since being good at stress management is just an idea trait for an Investigator.

* Someone want to explain how the hell Kamui [[spoiler: can have 184 organs jammed into him without him instantly dying from organ rejection?]]