Talk:Countermeasures/@comment-24801697-20151008181812/@comment-397235-20151011211526

That's a valid point, and in the manga there's a kid who couldn't take it and flipped shit in class one day as a result (he was just Someone Who Didn't Exist, not the Extra, though); he ended up killing himself from guilt because people died as a result of his inability to cope. Mei, by contrast, apparently doesn't care (granted, Mei's usual emotional range is fear, stoicism, and callous indifference, so that's not saying much) and we can assume it wasn't an issue.

I tend to be of the belief the Calamity is self sustaining, and likes it when people are killed, so it goes out of its way to make sure deaths occur. The Countermeasures are sort of like trying to appease an ancient heathen god, since they apparently do work sometimes, and sometimes they don't, and the only explanation anyone can really come up with is the Calamity saying "Because fuck you, that's why."