User blog comment:HanataSanchou/Diez Drake/@comment-24769684-20160309014054/@comment-24850639-20160309190506

Excellent points, I guess I never considered that Kaido could use this war he's trying to start as a rallying cry to get people to join up who may not have otherwise. In that sense he's just as dangerous as the Revolutionary Army in my opinion, maybe even more so since I'd assume they CAN kill Dragon...I'm not sure if his goal is to actually take down certain people in the WG, or to have a world war just for the sake of having one, but in either case I can how easily he may be able to recruit people. Whatever Drake's reasoning, I'm assuming he had it since before the timeskip and hopefully its gets explained in some kind of backstory.

The only thing I kinda disagreed with is the right/wrong and its role in One Piece. Perhaps he didn't do it intentionally, but I feel like the theme of right vs. wrong has resulted as a by-product of the characters and concepts he's introduced. There is a dichotomy of morality present in both the Marines and Pirates, and the Revolutionary Army and its role only shakes things up further. For example, lets take Issho and Kuzan. Both Admirals, one of the highest symbols of order in the MARINES, an organization dedicated to justice and maintaining peace. Both highly disillusioned with the organization, due to the model of "Absolute Justice" followed by their superior officer. Kuzan left the marines altogether, Issho flat out disobeyed an order in front of the ENTIRE WORLD. All because of their personal mottos of right and wrong, their own ideas of what "justice" is supposed to be mean. But who's right is "more" right, and who's wrong is "more" wrong? Oda has done a masterful job of really challenging the convention of "good intentions". Because of this, and our belief for example that Kuzan is a good guy, we automatically assume that he has good intentions with whatever he's planning with Blackbeard, THE bad guy of the series. It appears we're doing the same for Drake, and whatever his reasoning is for his relationship with Kaido. Point is, the direction this series moves in is a lot of times predicated by the morality of certain people. The Marineford War ending was all about Sengoku having a conscience about the lives being lost, and the lives lost up til then, while Sakazuki didn't give 2 shits. The Straw Hats would have been in Impel Down after Alabasta if Smoker hadn't felt grateful for Luffy saving his life, and handed the reigns to Tashigi. Tashigi had the perfect opportunity to arrest them all, and argued her subordinates down for trying to do so, because she knew the Pirates were the true heroes, and not them. Coby's first commander when he joined the marines had them all actually salute Luffy on his departure for what he did for the town and Coby. I could go on for days, but as you can see in these examples these people didn't let the "black and white" of Marine-right vs Pirate-wrong cloud their judgement.