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Questions to ponder when watching Elfen Lied.

If "worse" is a term to be explicated by reference to your standards and attitudes, then there need not be any argument on the matter strictly speaking, provided all others are informed of your preferences. If you wish to imply something stronger than this, namely that the evaluative status of Elfen Lied is something objective and hence true independently of any person's attitudes of it, such that no doubt of such status can be reasonably held by those sufficiently informed, then I beg to differ. I must note, of course, that I personally hold Elfen Lied in very high regard.

One of the supidest shows to come out in the last decade and you make it seems as if there is some deep, philosophical questions to be asked after watching the show.

One of the supidest shows to come out in the last decade and you make it seems as if there is some deep, philosophical questions to be asked after watching the show.

I enjoyed this show....when I first watched it. Literally two days later I was like "this show is terrible". I was just thirteen when I realized that.

Your parents let you watch that at age thirteen? Anime dazed Shocked
Wow.

One of the supidest shows to come out in the last decade and you make it seems as if there is some deep, philosophical questions to be asked after watching the show.

The nudity is unnecessary, the violence is retarded, and it forces you to feel bad. I enjoyed this show....when I first watched it. Literally two days later I was like "this show is terrible". I was just thirteen when I realized that.

I notice that several of the questions posed, most particularly 1), 5) and 6), demand normative answers of the respondent. That is to say, they are questions of a sort that are only typically addressed by the assertion, or at least the mere expression, of a norm. This being the case, one fathoms that addressing the numbered questions I list would require the respondent to express or imply what ought to be the case regarding nudity, entitlements and moral responsibility receptively. (Many respondents on this thread have already done the latter.) A formal explication of any such address would thus require them to state and critically support their beliefs on the what "ought statements" and their associated norms actually are.

The point I wish to draw from this is as follows: for me to answer the question of whether or not I consider the Diclonii to bear an entitlement to certain rights, even if I ignore for convenience the fact they are fictional, would require me to discuss matters pertaining to subjects far broader than the content of Elfen Lied alone. The same applies to the other two questions.

The questions pertaining to the being of a Diclonius, or the nature of one, as vague and trite as such a term is, pose similar requirements of the respondent. Answers to 2), 3) or 4) will be somewhat enthymematic, insofar as they will typically suppress the respondent's beliefs about dispositions, causes and the sufficient conditions for humanity respectively — beliefs their answers assume to be true. My claim that Diclonii are not naturally psychopathic must rest upon my primitive understanding of the sufficient conditions for Dicloniushood, to coin a term. Again, I fathom that these three questions are "loaded" to the extent that an adequete discussion of them would cover topics larger in scope than a single anime.