Right, but what I am saying is that he figured out on his own while Cardassians were still occupying the station what justice meant and that it didn’t mean just following the rules.
My point being that while we see Odo successfully reclaim his critical faculties (ie not just ignore the things outside the rules which are morally dubious), I think it’s easy to imagine a lot of timelines in which that did not happen.
IIRC, we even see one? (I need a rewatch.)
My point is that while I think there’s nothing morally wrong with anything Odo did, I also acknowledge that in “reality”, fascism and authoritarianism are ideologies which quite strongly tend towards comformitism. So in all likelihood, if put in the same situation as Odo, a lot of people might conform to the ideologies they might know are bad.
Ugh, I feel like I’m explaining my view rather poorly.
Right, but what I am saying is that he figured out on his own while Cardassians were still occupying the station what justice meant and that it didn’t mean just following the rules.
Yes, I agree.
My point being that while we see Odo successfully reclaim his critical faculties (ie not just ignore the things outside the rules which are morally dubious), I think it’s easy to imagine a lot of timelines in which that did not happen.
IIRC, we even see one? (I need a rewatch.)
My point is that while I think there’s nothing morally wrong with anything Odo did, I also acknowledge that in “reality”, fascism and authoritarianism are ideologies which quite strongly tend towards comformitism. So in all likelihood, if put in the same situation as Odo, a lot of people might conform to the ideologies they might know are bad.
Ugh, I feel like I’m explaining my view rather poorly.