Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20140411233703/@comment-3279282-20140416142736

No one besides you used the word "excuse" until now, I checked via ctrl+f. So please don't make things up.

A messed up childhood is not an excuse for attempted genocide, but a reason for a mindset which gives birth to such an act. There is no true evil or good in this world, everything works by the principle of cause and effect. There is no effect without a cause and no cause without an effect. That's basic Buddhism, by the way.

Sasuke's messed up childhood and the corruption by other people led to a mindset which deemed it okay to kill an entire village. But this has since changed, hasn't it?

As Novelist said, the main point of the whole Naruto manga is "be good, whatever the circumstance" or so.