Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu - Vol. 4 Ch. 28

[pigeons]

This isn't a Japanese or western moral thing, if you ever work in finance everyone thinks like this. The government thinks like this. It's all about self-interest.

 

[MelonReads]

@Lukaskyboss Rembrant "Jeff Bezos" and Mr. Butler "CIA" are scum precisely because they had to be scum and do shady shit to get to where they currently are in the first place. If you look at an objective historical analysis of not just so called "successful" merchants but aristocrats in medieval countries, youll see that they themselves had to do shady and scummy shit to be successful. Heirs to thrones having to murder relatives, the Wars of the Roses in England where aristocrats butchered themselves GoT style.
The safety nets and human rights that modern society created just offset these atrocities, though the rich and powerful still get off with a slap on the wrist nonetheless (Jeff Bezos and his shady dealings and monopolies, the CIA overthrowing governments and installing puppet dictators, etc.)
Rembrandt and Butler are no different from people in our world. If anything, what they're doing is expected of the elite in medieval society.
There are no "human rights" or fair "due process of law" or institutions that uphold transparency through democratic accountability and fair law enforcement regardless of social class in a medieval society. Medieval institutions are prone to corruption, bribery, and coverups. To be "successful" in medieval society, one has to take advantage of these.
@Noboru gets it.

 

[Lukaskyboss]

@MelonReads Of course, but even in a medieval society, it's often a master at arms, a Lord who has control over a town with his castle. No matter how you normalize bad deeds (and I'm not talking about law because the Lord is the law) in order to be successful, that's degradation (like how a young orphan has to steal in the streets to survive, which is different from someone who can live life decently but instead has ambition and seek power no matter the means used=greed/ambition). There is bound to be someone that is superior to others without the need of such low acts so it's logically wrong to excuse, justify their actions.

I'm talking about morals or virtue. He could be said to be interesting because he helps the MC achieve it without the need of being a murderer, a lier, a scoundrel. I won't excuse them.

 

[LordRimaru]

Me: Reading all these long comments
Also Me: *Trying to digest everything I red*

 

[Logic]

Look at the people here telling that Rembrant was an evil guy. but imagine if the MC was a guy that killed a thousand of people in the past and the story focused on how he didn’t want to kill anymore.... everyone (particularly guys) would probably say that he’s a badass

 

[AzureDragonLord]

I dunno, feel like rembrant is just a no hearted businessman. Not exactly evil

 

[fran13r]

@Logic

You know what? Thanks for reminding me of that. Here I was feeling weird about Rembrant killing off maybe a dozen people for being his competition, but the protagonist is unphased by genocide.

I'll give rembrant a chance.

 

[reychar13]

rembrant character sure intresting

 

[AhhUzumluKekim]

Dude mc is being pushed back too far in my opinion. I mean we can't even see him fighting plus he is too naive. He's just like any other side character now.