Opinions go into the YMMV tab, yes.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
"Writers Cannot Do Math: The very first episode of the series featured a criminal who was shown clearly on Ginoza's information screen to be 39 years old with a birthday of April 20, 2074. However, the series begins on November 4, 2112. If he was 39 years old, it would have to be 2113, which means that either the man's age or his birth year is incorrect."
I think that Japanese age can be 1 to 2 years off from western age. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
Basically they are 1 year old when they are born, and then they go up by one year every new year. Thats 1.5 years difference on average.
"Informed Attribute: A meta-example that makes up a very significant part of the show's main theme; the Sibyl System uses the Cymatic Scan to tell the Inspectors who to kill based on their mental state, regardless of that person's actual criminal history. Naturally, many of the so-called Latent Criminals harbour no real criminal objectives, simply having a mental state that the system believes is dangerous to society, branding them criminals through no fault of their own."
Isn't this more of a YMMV thing?
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Nah, it seems like shoehorning to me, though.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Removing. It's not an Informed Attribute if the only evidence is an In-Universe judgment call by the Sibyl System, which is far from omniscient.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Not really a reasoning I understand, but the result is still the same.
Pulled:
- Crapsack World: A person's soul and intent can easily be quantified into numbers, weeding out potential criminals. This means any thoughts about committing a crime will raise your numbers, and anyone who has exceeded the level has to be taken into therapy or custody, whether they have actually committed a crime or not. Even those who undergo therapy have little hope of having their psycho passes go down. Art has also been censored quite a bit. Apparently, this only happens in Japan, which isolates itself from the rest of the world.
- On the flipside, Sibyl did nearly completely eliminate crime and facilitated the job selection process.
- On the other hand, people such as college professors, journalists, cultural critics, and literary scholars (ironically, people who might recognize and criticize the flaws in the system) and declared useless and are unable to be members of society.
- In the larger world, Volume 2 of the anime's novelization reveals there was a World War III sometime in the 2030s. It also heavily hints that Korea was destroyed by another war sometime closer to the time of the series note . Also as a result of World War III, not many movies are made anymore. In the series itself, Kasei claims that Japan is the only placed in the world left with a civilized society (though it's not like she's a reliable view of what to consider "civilized") and Kogami is surprised any other country has any internet servers.
I think that the series is way too nuanced about the Sibyl System and Psycho-Pass to call it either a Crapsack World, a Utopia, or a False Utopia. While we intentionally get a really bad opening view of it, in the end we're mostly seeing a society, which according to Akane is both seriously flawed and better than any possible alternative she could come up with. It isn't either a utopia or a dystopia.
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Also, these subbullets contesting the example are a problem.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Truth be told, I can't help but notice there are just too many guesses and opinions on the page, the kind of content that would normally belong in WMG and YMMV tabs respectively - would it be alright if I attempted to rewrite the page for the most part?
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