Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-28939725-20161201164545/@comment-734582-20161206135820

Kakashisologod wrote: U really think nagato wouldev had kill them consciously? The human flight-or-fight response is part of the primitive brain. Meaning that no matter how philosophical, trained, elegant, well-intentioned etc you are: If that part of the brain triggers, your primitive brain flips the rest of your brain off, puts on sunglasses while the background explodes and does whatever the fuck it wants.

TLDR: Anyone has it in them to kill a man, provided the primitive part of your brain triggers. and considering Nagato lost control there, yes he killed them. "Consciously" is not a concept that applies to human base programming.