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I had a few questions in mind. Akane is someone who strongly believes in
justice and she doesn't cross the line even she could. She knows Sybil is not
the perfect system and lots of people do suffer from injustice because of it.
So why support it then even when she has had the chances to destroy it?

I mean how bad can it get without Sybil. It might be difficult for the society
without Sybil but if the rest of the world can live without it, then why not
the Japanese?


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Why does Akane support Sybil?


There are several opinions on this matter discussed in the anime, and I
believe one of them makes the most sense. The fact that the society living
under the law of Sybil has already formed certain behavioral patterns makes it
very hard to safely oppose the system.

Remember how people start freaking out at the very thought that their criminal
rating _could_ go up? How they become extremely nervous at the sight of a
criminal activity or something that may look like it. Imagine if they learned
that somebody is trying to oppose Sybil, how they would react. This would
certainly cause a lot of trouble and quite possibly lots of people killed
because of how the Sybil system works.

So the safer solution is to change the way it works gradually from within, by
changing the basic principles of how it judges people. Akane can't single-
handedly destroy the Sybil system, and because she has such a strong sense of
justice, she knows it would not be right to risk more innocent people's lives
than she has to, so she doesn't really have a lot of choice.


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First, how Hakase said, the process of disabling Sibyl would be extremely
tough and if not done correctly, it would result in many people getting hurt
or dying.

But there is other problem : what system should replace it? I think it was
stressed enough in conversation between Akane and Sybil. Even though Akane
doesn't like the current system, she doesn't have a replacement that would
give same results as Sybil while being much "nicer". Unlike Makishima, who
didn't care what would happen after Sybil was destroyed, she doesn't want to
risk anarchy afterwards. She doesn't want to risk a situation, where system
much worse than Sybil would emerge afterwards.

And one more thing : no matter how bad you think Sybil is. It still gives
"happiness" to most people. Even if life of few are sacrificed for it.


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I would also like to mention that the rest of the world ISN'T functioning very
well without a system like Sybil. Wong and Sybil both stated that most of the
countries in the world are in a state of anarchy and disorder.


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