Talk:Foresight/@comment-36269586-20180726110751/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180728153432

There are established facts from the novel, but whether or not what happened to Foresight was "justice" or if they deserve pity is basically subjective.

The only objective definition of justice is that whatever actually happens is justice, and we only have disagreements about justice because we don't know what will happen in the future. But something like deserving pity has no objective definition at all, even if you were to measure it by something like a poll of how many people actually felt pity for them, it would be a measure of a subjective feeling.

I take it as being pretty evident that the purpose of focusing so much on Foresight and particularly Arche is to generate a certain feeling of pity for them. That's why Erya is in the story too, to make people feel that it was unfair that he died so relatively painlessly (with barely enough time to fully appreciate that he'd been decisively beaten) compared to the fate of Foresight.

Which serves the narrative purpose of hammering home that Ainz is not running around being an ally of justice. Ainz recognizes that pretending his own particular feelings about who should and shouldn't suffer and die is completely subjective, even if he were to call it justice. No, he's simply doing what he can to protect the memory and legacy of his friends, for no better reason than because they were HIS friends and he has the power to do so.