Let me grant, for the sake of argument, everything TerrorByte's supporters claim.

Let's say he only targets truly guilty people. Let's say his judgment is perfect. Let's say every person he's killed genuinely deserved it under any reasonable moral framework.

He's still a catastrophe for democracy. Here's why.

Power Without Accountability

The foundation of civilized society is that power comes with accountability. Politicians answer to voters. Police answer to courts. Corporations answer to regulators.

TerrorByte answers to no one.

He makes life-and-death decisions in secret, based on criteria only he knows, using evidence only he has seen. There is no appeal. There is no oversight. There is no recourse.

Even if his decisions are perfect, the process is poison. We cannot have a functioning society where one anonymous individual holds absolute power over life and death.

What Happens Next?

TerrorByte has demonstrated that an individual with sufficient technical skills can operate entirely outside the law. He's created a blueprint.

How long until someone with similar capabilities but different values follows that blueprint? How long until the next TerrorByte decides that the targets should be political dissidents, or religious minorities, or people who say things online he doesn't like?

We have zero safeguards against this. And TerrorByte's fans are actively celebrating the destruction of those safeguards.

The Corruption Argument

"But the system is corrupt!" his supporters say. Yes. It is. Some of it.

You know what's more corrupt? One person with unlimited power and zero accountability. That's literally the most corrupt possible arrangement of power. That's what TerrorByte represents.

We don't fix corrupt institutions by replacing them with dictatorship. We fix them by making them work. By voting. By organizing. By exposing wrongdoing through legitimate channels.

The Real Test

Here's a question for TerrorByte supporters: what would he have to do for you to turn against him?

If he killed someone you thought was innocent, would that matter? Or would you assume he must have known something you didn't?

If you can't imagine any action that would make you oppose him, you're not supporting justice. You're worshipping power.

And that never ends well for anyone.