@Darth:
Shichibukai system is ineffective and easily exploitable, but not corrupt. At least, not according to any definition of corruption I know.
No, because it's his usual pattern with villains. Luffy will meet with the main antagonist of the arc, and loses, more or less severely. Sometimes, he meets with them twice, and loses more or less severely. After which, we have the second (or is some cases third) confrontation, in which Luffy overpowers enemy with his fighting power and willpower.
Crocodile, Enel, Lucci, Moria… every major arc villain since we entered Grand Line followed this pattern.
Serving unde Shichibukai was described as giving full pardon, as long as you serve.
And yes, they are conditionaly pardoned. They are not pirates, they are privateers. As long as they don't do anything against goverment, their bounties are taken away. What exactly more do you need to constitute pardon?
Also, Doflamingo is member of the founding families. Riku's aren't. He has the support of the citizens. He is, by all accounts, doing what he was obligated to do: Protecting WG interests, and their citizens. He has a pardon.
Yes, they could probably stop him, but why would they? Stop talking from the perspective of all knowing reader and think a bit, will ya?
Then Guess we just have different meanings of the word "overpowered", and "corrupt".
Except, I'm not talking from a reader's perspective. Even from the regular person whose making these decision's POV with even the slightest intelligence in OP. They have naturally 'bad rulers' already. Why invite some1 who by their very nature is 99% likely to be another 1, sooner or later. Hell and then trust him more with the more dirty jobs they also supposedly don't want known. That was literally like telling a known reputed blackmailer your every secret you don't want known; Or giving a less than 1 year rehabilitated sober alcoholic a job as a bartender. 'Think a bit' yourself, it doesn't take a genius to see any of these situations as: "Hmmn this might turn out so well", at the very least.
I've often times seen your opinion that the solution to covering things up would be a Buster Call; Yet you have the chance to stop something before it even gets that bad,or even possibly happens, all by the 'way too hard process just by saying no", but that's an impossibility?….
Really?...
No they don't have the responsibility to say no, but they don't have the responsibility to just go along with it either.
Every WG/ Marines member , Even Sengoku who's normally pretty calm/ laid- back have been shown treating the Shichibukai with detest and mistrust. "Pardons" and the label Shichibukai doesn't mean every1 forgets what came before. And you're still telling me they don't even have a reason to just make it easier on themselves and just say no?....
"Protecting WG assets, and their citizens" ; before he became ruler?
He was part of the founding family, though that obviously didn't matter as he was still called a former Celestial Dragon, which is also why he wasn't shown given the chance to go back with the CD's? So basically he was on same footing as Riku just with his "crimes" more in the past, and not necessarily against Dressrosa personally. Not to mention how much was actually known about the situation in Dressrosa at that time as you seem to assume a bit. Still a seeming glaringly obvious bad idea.
But just because something's pardoned on paper, doesn't equate pardoned in life. The very fact that bounties can be reinstituted for the combination of the same old crimes and new shows the meaning of pardoned is very different from use of it in real life, in which you can't be recharged after the pardon, or the subject can't even be mentioned in terms of proof, or _even the why or how you can recieve a pardon in the first place*. I'd say it acts more like conditional immunity against past admitted to crimes, that you can still lose, and be right back on the hook for them._**
You mentioned that corruption has to take into account motivation.
To give an example: So a company's CEO/ President/ VP/ etc.'s motivation could be that "they don't want to be caught with their illegal crimes/ methods". But This "motivation happens to coincide/ coexist/ align with the motivation of "keeping the company running". Which also happens to coincide/ coexist/ align with the motivation of "keeping the workers blissfully unaware so they keep working to keep the company going". Which just happens to coincide/ coexist/ align with the motivation "the workers/ everybody keeps their jobs here". Which was everybody's/ those workers motivation anyway at the time. That same company's CEO/ President/ VP/ thus proceeds to commit murder when people find out, and other clear cut illegal, ( by the law he supposedly follows) crimes, ( and hell even if they committed no further crimes); "Thinking a little" as you told me, are you seriously saying there's even a doubt to whether they are, or their motives were "corrupt"?
And applying that to this situation, and "thinking a little", are you seriously saying the WG would even be likely to tell their underlings their true motives? Or that we the reader are really supposed to infer that what's been said by them is the full extent of their true motives? Or that if their true motives can or can't hide behind/ change to suit/ fit theirs to suit the ideas "justice" and the "law", especially so seeing that as they are literally the ones who seem to both make and enforce their ideas of both terms on the world, in the OPU?
Simply put we can't really speak to their motivation(s) either way, so can't definitively say they are not corrupt.
Just wait until tommorow for the new chapter.
