Context:
Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally “crossroads killing”) is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time. The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.
The act of tsujigiri against defenceless civilians was widely and socially condemned as immoral, cowardly, and associated with rogue samurais and bandits, and was not considered common or respectable samurai practice. It was made a capital offence by law in 1602 by the Edo government.
辻斬り or 辻斬, literally “crossroads killing”
So either ‘crossroads killing’ or ‘crossroads killing and a swirl’.
It was made a capital offence by law in 1602 by the Edo government.
Previous laws regarding murder didn’t cover it?
Laws for thee not for me
samurai sometimes owned land and were part of the aristocracy, at the very least being retainers of lords and thus being a more privileged class and caste.
Before that was the warring period. So effectively no.
That’s some serial killer shit.
Well, yeah, they’re samurai
Medieval European knights weren’t much better either.
Turns out the rich and powerful have always been assholes
They were basically the medieval version of cops. We’re still trying to figure out how to give people the power to protect others without giving them the power to abuse others to this very day.
The trouble is that there seems to be a very blurry line between the two on both an institutional and internal psychological level. To quote Twitter user @meganamram (from before it for completely fucked as a website): “You can’t be nice to everyone because being nice to certain people is inherently cruel to others.” For every case that appears to be an obvious case of good versus evil there’s fifty more that are weird muddy bullshit where there’s no winner and the closest you’ll ever get to justice is deciding who should lose harder.
And unfortunately the loser usually just defaults to whoever doesn’t go to church with the cop, which was probably also true in medieval times.
how to give people the power to protect others without giving them the power to abuse
Police are by their nature a gang who are paid off for protection from other gangs. They likewise consist of people who sell their muscle and weapon skills, for the absence of other skills to sell.
We’re still trying to figure out how to give people the power to protect others without giving them the power to abuse others to this very day.
That gives me an idea. If we already have body cams, why not take it a step further and have them transmit in real time to a civilian oversight representative? Maybe give the rep the ability to lock down the gun remotely if it’s obvious there’s no real danger. No signal, no functioning gun. The idea was explored in Psycho-pass and it seems like a decent balance of power and restraint.
If a cop objects to the idea then you know it would likely go in the right direction.
If memory serves, the whole psycho-pass system was. Uh. Flawed.
Gun should be locked down by default unless the observers ok it.
I think this happened in The Watchmen series
That’s what I said.
辻 literally looks like a cross with roads.
辶 has a meaning “road” and 十 is “ten”. In Japanese you’d say “jyuuji” if you want to refer to the cross shape, written “十字”, literally “ten character”. Kanji, despite being a semantic writing system, often will not have such a clean breakdown by radicals, but this time everything checks out.
Assholes
Something about the expression and composition on that little Pepe comic reminds me of old Mad magazines.
I have to wonder if the pic is made by AI, because it’s fascinating to me that some people keep cranking out elaborate Pepe images. Shitposting in text is easy, drawing not so much.
The OP image is rather low-res, but I don’t see any particularly obvious bullshit in the Pepe pic. Other than the fact that drawing full five fingers is unusual for a comic.
Lol. Spy vs Spy maybe?
