User blog comment:DancePowderer/What Are We Thinking?/@comment-3279487-20110223131930

I thought this topic myself and here my conclusion: you must distinguish between the justice in One Piece and the justice in our world (the readers), otherwise you'll be stuck. So, let's see: So these are the "macro categories", you can classify a person with 2 words like this (our pint of view-One Piece): Arlong is a BAD BAD guy, Luffy is a GOOD BAD guy, Akainu is a BAD GOOD guy and Smoker is a GOOD GOOD guy. Special cases: the Celestial Dragon maybe are bad guy frow each point of view, but they have the immunity so it's the law which is wrong. After this you must consider each person unique, because, in the end there can be only GOOD and BAD actions, people can change "side" and there aren't only 2 "category". Now, about "the end justifies the means", I don't think so, but I don't want to be naive, if the only way to reach a "good" end is by a "bad" way, you must do "evil", but because you do it for a good reason that doesn't means it'll be "justified", evil will still be evil. You have simply the courage to take responsibility for that. "The end justifies the means" often is taken too lightly, if you think about when Akainu blow up a ship of civilian too prevent Scholars to escape or Onigumo attack a battleship to kill Luffy, in both case they were useless actions. Last thing about the revolutionary, if you assume the world government is wrong or "evil" you have 2 ways to change it: the good way is the legal way, to change it inside it, becoming the "government"; the bad way is the revolution, I don't say you can't do that, sometimes it's the only way, I simply say that this way you'll become a "criminal" that can build a "good" government, but you have to do bad things for that. Well usually if they win they become the good guys anyways.
 * in the One Piece's world Marines and Government are GOOD, which include Akainu, Kizaru, Aokiji, Sengoku, Onigumo, Garp, Smoker, kings like Wapol and so on. If you think Onigumo shooting a fellow marine is wrong, well, technically in a state of war that can be happen even in our world if you're a soldier; the CP9 is also GOOD, although it's "dark justice", if you think about it that's not so different from the secret agencies in our world.
 * in the One Piece's world the pirates and criminals are EVIL, which include Luffy and the others, Arlong, Crocodile, Whitebeard and Ace, Dragon and the revolutionary and the Dadan family.
 * from our point of view, instead the Good guys are: Luffy, Ace and the adventure-like pirates; Garp, Aokiji, Smoker, Tashigi and the followers of the "Moral Justice", kings like Cobra, also the government and followers of a "soft" Absolute Justice (Kizaru, Sengoku) meaning marines that they're strict on Pirates but they don't sacrifice fellow soldiers or civilian can be GOOD too.
 * from our point of view, followers of Dark Justice and "strict" Absolute Justice are EVIL which include Akainu, Rob Lucci&CP9, Onigumo; kings like Wapol; of course pirates like Arlong, Crocodile and criminal like the bandits in chapter 1 are EVIL.