Calculation of Interests (Cont’d)
At last, I am going to say a few words for this section. It is concerned with a question of whether the existence of those caves positively or negatively affects the development of the fellow Japanese and their reputation.
This problem is quite simple. A short answer would be adequate. That is, they do extensive harm and no good. Their existence creates harm in all directions and to a great extent. You might wonder whether there are at least one or two goods out of the hundred harms but unfortunately you would be hardly able to find them.
If we want to judge the interest of the event in an appropriate manner, we have to calculate intangible gain and loss in addition to tangible things such as financial profit and loss. At least this would be the method that intellectuals should take. In fact, issues of devil caves involve not only economic problems but also ethical ones, and therefore we have to rigorously add to our calculation intangible gain and loss such as reputation of the entire Japanese community. As the series has proven throughout the past forty episodes, there could have been an unimaginable amount of harm done to the children of humankind that those devils in the world of darkness are using in order to sustain their businesses and their existence. They step into the interior, places where not many Japanese have imprinted their footsteps on, and in some cases, into faraway places where no single Japanese fellow lives. They consult the movement of police and government, and plot the best possible evil schemes. They have completely destroyed respect of white people, who disdain them and see even a straight Japanese passerby as part of devil-kinds. They are completely soaked in ill water to the point where they can no longer see the inconvenience, unpleasantness and many other troubles experienced by others. For example, a straight business person attempts to launch a new business in town. However, as a result of troubles caused by evil schemes of devil fellows, the person would have to encounter a lot of difficulties and inconvenience and would not be able to make progress on his business as he plans. There is an actual case like this in Fernie, and worse in Nelson where there is even no room for straight Japanese to enter.