i feel like people are way too quick to treat the brimhats like 'the villains' and assume they're all just morally bankrupt terrorists or something, when the narrative makes it painfully, explicitly clear that they really only exist because of the oppressive laws of the pact maintained by the pointed capsā who themselves are not exactly the pinnacle of morality either.
memory-wiping is not a morally neutral act. even when used to prevent someone labeled as 'dangerous' from doing further damage, removing their memory is still an act of incredible violence. the confrontation between galga and ininia is a really good microcosm of this fact; galga, as far as we've been shown, is not a cruel or heartless personā but ininia is almost certainly right in her assertion that, had the tables been turned, he would've had no issues wiping her memory of magic. and even then, even then!!!! the narrative shows us that galga's memory being wiped is ALSO really awful and horrific!!
it's also important to note that, if you're wiping the mind of someone who has been involved in magic for a significant portion of their lives (like most witches in the series) that is an absolutely catastrophic loss of self to inflict on someone. so much so that they're exiled in order to relearn how to even exist in society. it is a violation of autonomy on one of the deepest levels imaginable, and the brimhats aren't the ones best known for using it
i just feel like too many people are pigeonholing the brimhats when we don't even know all that much about them, yet.
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