Huh. So I guess we don't know how it's punished, then.
See, in a framework where some abstract form of karma avenges you, it's
easy to imagine that parricide will result in you generally get you screwed
over. But when it's your own family that's supposed to avenge you, what's
that then -- suicide? Or does it pass to the closest kin who isn't you?
(Eg, your dad's brother? Should Danan be grumping more about Lex?)
Because it seems like the importance of family is very much there, an
assumption beyond all that blood and death, and the Celtic system must have
something to say about knifing your dad. (In its absence, I suppose Kaga
just used his Japanese senses about it.)
Though the other way around isn't necessarily the same thing. Given how
children are often seen as offshoots of their parents I imagine killing
your kid can be justified in any number of ways in old world myths. Is that
the case here?
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Date: 2013-09-07 04:58 pm (UTC)Huh. So I guess we don't know how it's punished, then.
See, in a framework where some abstract form of karma avenges you, it's easy to imagine that parricide will result in you generally get you screwed over. But when it's your own family that's supposed to avenge you, what's that then -- suicide? Or does it pass to the closest kin who isn't you? (Eg, your dad's brother? Should Danan be grumping more about Lex?)
Because it seems like the importance of family is very much there, an assumption beyond all that blood and death, and the Celtic system must have something to say about knifing your dad. (In its absence, I suppose Kaga just used his Japanese senses about it.)
Though the other way around isn't necessarily the same thing. Given how children are often seen as offshoots of their parents I imagine killing your kid can be justified in any number of ways in old world myths. Is that the case here?