#morality

And- Vash choosing to kill legato (at least in the manga) isn’t treated as this lesson about how his morals are pointless and that killing is necessary, instead it’s treated as a tragedy

Vash mourns the fact that he couldn’t find another way to deal with legato and he mourns himself and the fact that the one thing he was clinging to the one choice he felt he had was taken away

And his friends mourn with him! They are absolutely heartbroken that hes had to do this

Yes. Full stop. Ive spent my entire life watching school shootings happen, seen my country blow billions of dollars on unnecessary wars, and stood in the middle of peaceful protests that get mocked and ignored. I did everything right, and learned that whats "right" simply makes you easier to ignore by the people who hold power.

I grew up in the sweet and docile "Babysitters Club" era, and have watched the next generations cut their teeth on "Hunger Games" and all kinds of dystopian lit. What did you all think was going to happen, when you kept tightening the noose on kids who were reading about revolution between active shooter drills?

Would you rather act to save people, knowing that by choosing who to help you are implicitly choosing who to let die? Or would you rather keep your hands clean by letting the disaster unfold on its own, regardless of how much worse it will be because you didn't act?