Death Parade

[shinta|hikari]

No need to quote anything. You got the line right. We are just interpreting the nuance a little differently.

You can make a mistake in the process but still arrive at the correct conclusion, is what I'm saying. You should also take note that Decim asked Nona if he was mistaken. He didn't say that he was. He just started to doubt his decision because he failed to see through the act, which means he made a judgment with incomplete information.

If he would have surely decided that the girl deserved a second chance with that info, he would have said something along the lines of "I made a mistake," instead of "Did I make a mistake?"

You seem to be making the "unloving" part a big deal, and that is where we differ. I think the affair, by itself, is already grounds for her to be sent to the void. Decim may or may not believe that his decision is correct in the end. What I am saying is that I believe that his decision was correct, and at the very least, Nona did not think it was worth scolding him more than 5 seconds for. If sending someone to the void by mistake only warrants 5 seconds of scolding (and no intervention whatsoever), I don't think these arbiters would bother going through all the trouble of setting up a game in the first place.

EDIT: About the reason why Decim gave the man a second chance, I think it's simply because of what Decim saw in the flashback. The dude thought his wife was having an affair (even if the source was wrong), and she was. To Decim, who only saw memories and not intentions or feelings, that meant the dude was a victim already and deserved a second chance. What the woman's act did affect was her own fate. It just so happens we disagree on what fate she actually deserves.

Just to be clear, I only agree with Decim's decision (result, not the process) on the woman's fate. I already said in an earlier post that I think he screwed up not shoving the dude into the void too.