But others argue that girls too can try picking up boys, so the system of “picking up” is not biased against one specific gender over others. We must thus address why we believe it is right or wrong to try “pick up girls in a dungeon.” Do we find the entire act of “picking up girls” immoral? The dictionary definition (from ) states that “to pick up” in an informal use means: “to become acquainted with informally or casually, often in hope of sexual relationship.” However, because “picking up” implies that there is a “subject” selecting an “object,” some find the act of “picking up girls” as diminishment of female gender to lesser beings than male, and see that “picking up girls” is part of sexual harassment. is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties, and only what is old is good.” In On the Genealogy of Morality, he also says that the struggle between master morality that “weighs actions on a scale of good or bad consequences” and slave morality that “weighs actions on a scale of good or evil intentions” shape the social conventions that define our concept of morality.] Instead, I will adopt other opinions, including moral universalism (or the universality of morality) and mostly moral relativism, that the division between “right” and “wrong” are simply creations from the social conventions. It is also a question of risk-benefit ratio, utility, and telos: the very purpose of dungeons.įirst, let us discuss the morality, for the question does involve the word “wrong.” Moral nihilist and moral skeptic arguments defeat the whole purpose of this review (since the answer would simply be “you decide” or “nobody knows”), so I will not adopt these. The question “is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon” therefore is more profound than the morality (or ‘permissibility’) of such act. Thus the book/anime asks a rhetorical question on its cover (in the form of a title as many literary works often do) and tries to answer through a parable – a parable of a young boy who looks up to one, unreachable girl so much that he forgets those who are near him. ‘Of course, it is not wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon!” But the question regarding the act of “picking up girls in a dungeon” deserves more serious approach and more complex response than a simple “no.” “Let’s pick up girls just because we feel like it” only degenerate ourselves to less intelligent, mindless beings. Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka, (abbreviated to DanMachi), asks one of the most philosophical question of the modern era: “is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon”?įor the naïve readers/watchers, the answer seems to be obvious.
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