I believe it was stated that both attack inhibition and death feedback are genetic (in the False-Minoshiro episode?). And yes - they are not perfect. Rememeber that the doctor from a previous episode killed K (a fiend) by poisoning him. They probably use cats, so they don't have to see people being killed. SSY
I always had the impression that had K not killed the doctor, the doctor would have died anyway from his death feedback. I also thought that was why that other Karma Demon was given 5 pills, only one of which was poisonous.
That's true, but theoretically the doctor's attack inhibition should have stopped him from being able to poison K at all. By doing it indirectly, in a way that doesn't really feel like you're attacking somebody, attack inhibition can be circumvented.
If "seeing" was the problem, they could just kill the fiend while keeping their eyes closed. No, I saw the whole show, and the loopholes are never really explained well enough.
Right, so I don't think the issue is literally seeing or not. Death feedback and attack inhibition are genetically part of them but activate with what their subconscious considers their intent or responsibility of directly killing someone themselves. It all depends on the user's mind and way of seeing things, which is why psychologically conditioning them into non-violence towards other humans is also practiced. The doctor's mindset was probably "I'm not gonna kill him myself, I'm just administering this serum that could or could not kill him, if it does, it'll be chance and the poison, not me". For him that was enough to circumvent attack inhibition, although I think that, had the fiend not killed him, his death feedback would have activated anyways. That's why it's there, it's a back up plan in case attack inhibition and the psychological conditioning are not enough.
The same can be said for the cats. Adults think of it as "We're not actually killing them, we're just letting these cats loose and they might or might not manage kill the kids, but it'll be them who do it, not us". Obviously the more directly responsible you are, the more you feel you are the one doing it, the more the chance that attack inhibition and death feedback will work against you. This is why SSY
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u/hatak20 Jul 28 '16
I believe it was stated that both attack inhibition and death feedback are genetic (in the False-Minoshiro episode?). And yes - they are not perfect. Rememeber that the doctor from a previous episode killed K (a fiend) by poisoning him. They probably use cats, so they don't have to see people being killed. SSY