Yeah of course it's evil to straight up kill someone and turn them into a killing machine, movies have covered that pretty well
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GitS has historically been about getting past that to the murkier shit, what happens if this tech is the new normal
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What if you weren't outright forced to get cyborg enhancements but they became expected to do your job or participate in society
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What if we had the power to erase or alter our identities by choice and a lot of ppl started choosing that
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GitS 2017 stacks the deck way too conveniently on making the tech unappealing and therefore clearly evil
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The Real You hated the tech and that's WHY they killed the Real You and took her brain by force bc they're just that gratuitously evil
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It's too convenient. There's no meaningful sense of choice
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They even stack the deck by making it clear being a cyborg is no fun. ScarJo's Major is one of the most joyless versions
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Like, they could've at least brought over the idea that the Major LIKES being a nearly immortal killing machine
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The angst in GitS was always less "I wish I were normal", more "I'm not sure what normal is or why other people want it so much"
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ADVANTAGEOUS at least lampshades the fantasy side of its dark premise - Gwen's pushed to demo the tech bc it's what millions hunger for
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Being able to be young again, to be beautiful, to customize whatever it is you want your body to do
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I don't even need that, give me a sleep for X hours function and a face/name remember function and I'm in.
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