Good Ol' Yellow-Green

I wanted to take a look at episode three of “Psycho-Pass” because of the obvious issues that are presented in the drone factory (obviously there are issues presented in all of the episodes of Psycho-Pass buuuuut ya know…). Good ol’ Yellow-Green is going around killing people with the drones, but nobody suspects him because he is the underdog; he is bullied by other factory workers so that they can take their stress out on him. Which is, in a sense, throwing this one person to the dogs in order to alleviate any strain felt by the other workers. What I find pretty dumb of them to not realize is that all of the bullying and pressure put on Yellow-Green is going to/ is causing him to have repressed emotions of hatred towards his coworkers. And all of those negative emotions held in are going to raise his Psycho-Pass until he feels the need to alleviate his own pressure back onto them. What’s also interesting about this episode is how Akane starts to trust in the enforcer’s judgments more. She has had her doubts of the Sybil System from the beginning and couldn’t quite bring herself to believe in how the enforcers were operating on their own knowledge. I think that it says a lot about Akane’s character and judgment abilities when she is willing to trust the latent criminals to bring Yellow-Green to justice. She knows that they will be able to find a way to determine if he is the actual murderer or not, and that the law must, sometimes, be skirted around (aka Kogani’s interesting methods of information retrieval) in order to find the truth and enforce the rules.