[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

How do I say this, his prejudice towards the Humagears were fake, coded, a lie. It makes it seem like the steps he took to remove this hatred were not genuine and also removes all accountability on his part to take the steps and dump it all on Gai. It's also... kind of pointless for Gai to tell him that, only serving to add into the pile of "Gai's misdeeds of no reason"

Yeah, I think the best argument against Fuwa's fake memories is that it's giving things like Intolerance and Bigotry some weird supervillain rationalization, rather than a choice Fuwa made for himself twelve years ago. I don't know that it does this show's themes any favors to shove that all onto an outside force?

That said, I think the counterpoint is that things like Intolerance and Bigotry are always something that comes from outside of us. It's the way your parents raised you, or the community you lived in, or your friends, or etc. Babies aren't born bigots, you know? ZAIA didn't make Fuwa hate Humagears, they just gave him a formative trauma and figured he'd turn into a Humagear-hating lunatic. If that dude had gotten therapy instead of becoming a Kamen Rider, he might've had a better outcome.