Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24826628-20140823045842/@comment-28861328-20140823055957

If I had magical powers, and was hated for them, I would use them to make an island out in a beautiful spat of ocean, create a lawn chair to sit on and a margarita to sip on, and ignore the world for the rest of my days.

Destroying the world is much to overrated for someone like me and, frankly, is a waste of any person's time, good or evil.

And:

"Plus you can't really atone for your actions when you kill a mass amount of people. Its not like a simple sorry is gonna cut it."

The concept of atonement based on the severity of the crime is such a pathetically human concept it nearly makes me cringe when it is used as an argument. Mainly because people think that just because someone has been redeemed and atoned for their actions, they aren't subject to punishment. Such thinking is completely in denial of reality. Obito payed for his actions with his life. I hardly think that a human life is a "simple sorry".

To suggest that someone cannot come back from the bad they've done and have a genuine change of heart is not only a grievous error, it is not realistic. People change on the drop of a hat. Just as it takes only one bad thing to happen to someone to make them take the path of a serial killer, it can also only take once push to make them see that all that they've done is truly terrible, and make them want to repent.

People are not quite so black and white.

Just because you do bad, or good, doesn't mean you'll always be that way and particularly Obito-haters seem to think that it is a bad thing for the villains to all have a change of heart, but it is actually completely unrealistic for them not to waver in their resolve, when confronted with defeat and the weight of their wrongdoing, and want to change.