> Excellent blog entry you have there, Thank you, I write for the kind of people that hang out around Hacker News - please feel very free to comment, send ques

> Excellent blog entry you have there, Thank you, I write for the kind of people that hang out around Hacker News - please feel very free to comment, send questions, or drop me an email any time if something suits you or you agree/disagree/want to know more/etc. Multiple contact details in my profile. > although I tend to agree more with Sakon: We should not disregard "higher principles", whatever those may be (religion, samurai code, etc.), otherwise, what good are the things that being single-minded brings us? Indeed, that's one of the reasons Lone Wolf and Cub is so good - it doesn't show just one side, it makes intelligent arguments for both sides. Is it better to have multiple loose principles like Sakon and hold them inviolable, or hold one overarching principle sacred like Itto, even at the expense of doing littler things wrong? (Also, Itto requires full details of why he's performing an assassination, presumably because he makes some judgment call on when to do it) > I am curious, what happens to Daigoro? I don't know, I'm five books from finishing! It's 26 books long, a real epic sort of thing. You have to expect Itto succeeds at the end, that's how things work. But does he die at the end or live? Does Daigoro live or die? I'm not done yet, I'm really really curious to know.