Board Thread:Anime/Game Discussion/@comment-29981284-20161228210504/@comment-24573550-20180216135130

HouseBlack wrote: From a technicaly point-of-view, Diavolo did deserve the GER Death Loop. Cause, really, he DID commit an infinite crime.

How "long" of a crime is murder? It depends on the kind of world you live in.

If you live in a world with reincarnation, it's worth the experience of a single death. Cause the person who was murdered had to experience 1 death and then gets to reincarnate.

But in a world without reincarnation, it would have to be worth 1 permament death. Cause the person who was murdered is dead and gone forever. So, in order to be equal, the perpetrator would also have to be dead and gone forever. Otherwise the perpetrator isn't getting a sentence equal to the crime. The victim is gone for all of eternity, so the perpetrator should be gone for all of eternity as well. That is justice. A punishment that matches the crime.

Unfortunately, this is impossible for Diavolo. Because Diavolo murdered more than one person. Which means that he would have to be dead and gone forever more than one time. Which is an oxymoron. You can only be dead and gone forever once. Otherwise it wasn't forever. This means it's impossible to punish Diavolo fittingly.

Unless you use a loophole like GER.

If we're being technical, eternal death is eternal. So no amount of pain, no matter how vast, can equal it. Cause it's eternal.

GER never actually kills Diavolo for good. It just makes him experience death over and over again. So GER never actually gives Diavolo the eternal deaths he deserves. However, since Diavolo can't actually have the multiple eternities of deaths that he deserves, GER is the next best thing.

Since, because he is never dead for good, he is actually receiving a lighter punishment than his crimes warrant. But since it goes on forever, I don't think anyone is going to complain about him getting off lightly.

If we're using pure logic without sentamentality, than the answer to this question is yes. Diavolo deserves his fate. Because he killed multiple people off for good, but he can't be killed off for good multiple times. So instead he experiences pain forever. Cause the worser punishment he deserves is impossible. Very well thought out, but I don't think this is something that can be boiled down to pure logic. 1 life can be priceless to one and worthless to the next. So Diavolo's punsihment can be fitting depending on if you asked a mother whos' child died because of Diavolo's drug peddling, theres no price thats equivalent to her baby boy. We inject sentimentality when we assume Diavolo DESERVES to be punished at all. Someone could equally apply all the damage he has done indirectly throughout JoJo against his indirect good and weigh him in as doing more good than bad in his life.