During the recent Season 3, Episode 4, where Maki massacres the Zenin Clan, an important revelation is made: long before Maki, the Zenin were already on the path to extinction. Their continued existence wasn’t due to their strength or unity, but because of the whim of Toji Zenin. This implies something crucial Toji could have wiped out the Zenin Clan at any point if he truly wanted to. Their survival was never guaranteed; it was tolerated.
This mirrors a much larger issue within Jujutsu society itself. As the episode makes painfully clear, the system is deeply corrupt, cruel, and discriminatory. Twins are treated as curses, sorcerers without prestigious techniques are dehumanized, and anyone lacking cursed energy is viewed as lesser or outright disposable. The Zenin Clan embodies this rot perfectly: obsessed with bloodline purity and power, they created the very monster that would destroy them.
Satoru Gojo stands as the ultimate contradiction to this system. He had the power to dismantle Jujutsu society from the very beginning. Just like Toji with the Zenin Clan, Gojo could have erased the higher-ups whenever he pleased but he didn’t. While he despised the system, he chose restraint, believing that gradual reform through nurturing a new generation was better than outright annihilation.
That illusion shattered the moment Gojo was sealed. With him gone, Jujutsu society immediately revealed its true nature passing tyrannical laws, ordering executions, and showing just how fragile their morality was without Gojo’s presence keeping them in check. And when Gojo was finally unsealed, his response was immediate and decisive: he killed the higher-ups without hesitation.
In the end, both Toji and Gojo expose the same truth. Jujutsu society doesn’t survive because it’s just or righteous it survives only because those powerful enough to destroy it allow it to. Once that mercy is withdrawn, the system collapses under the weight of its own corruption.