Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20140411233703/@comment-6794268-20140416155345

I am taking Sasuke for his actions and nothing more. I don't know what the future holds for him. It may turn out he will kill everyone. I am staying objective and not making more accusations and assumptions than I have to. I would never attempt to persuade you to look at a character differently. However, I would encourage and challenge you to be more objective when it comes to the character. You focus on one aspect and ignore others.

I know people like that, too. I, myself, was born in Israel, with constant fighting, murders, missiles, etc. Because I am brown, even a lot of Jews attacked me, physically and verbally, for looking Muslim. We moved to the U.S. when I was 13. I had an abusive father who is also a pedophile (never touched me, thankfully). My parents were extremely neglectful, and I won't go into complete detail as to not make it a "Woe is my life, pity me, please!". I lost a son when he was 3 years old in a car wreck. I was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago. I've lost family members in Israel/Palestine. I've had horrible shit to me. I've also made horrible decisions because of it. No, I didn't lose an entire family, but that's not the point I was making.

But you're forgetting this a story. In the real world, people don't have that kind of power. They can't go on genocidal rampages any time they want to (please don't bring up Hitler... (even though I just did...)). Sasuke had things occur to him when he was a little child. He became an orphan akin to Naruto. He never had anyone help him until he fought alongside Itachi against Kabuto, and then Sasuke started to understand he made mistakes and decided to try and do things the right way and become Hokage to change. I'm not confident in the belief Sasuke wants to kill Naruto because it makes no sense. And plenty of rivals in many stories across the world fight like that. I don't view Sasuke as evil because I understand how humans behave in the real world, and despite being fiction, it is very much like the real world in many aspects pertaining to the characters themselves. And TU3 isn't wrong in saying he is responsible for it. But anything more than that and is becomes unreasonable without trying to understand the character. He did fail, and no one is saying he deserves kindness, Hokage, or anything.

When I say arrogant, I mean obstinate and unwilling to try to see other sides, believing you're right and everyone else is wrong, even though no one is 100% right all the time. It is important we remain as objective as we can and try to see other sides.