Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-12509038-20140830021423/@comment-24577388-20140909144454

Indeed. He was a courageous and selfless man, a powerful shinobi, a great Kage and inheritor of the Will of Fire, but no person can do what he did to their child and be called a good father. Sacrificing one life to save thousands? That's sensible. Turning your own son into a military weapon for the sake of a balance of power (even though they never even tried to utilize his power until he was 13) when he had the option to have the Kyuubi killed, even temporarily? Bad father.