Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-9567825-20140910102105/@comment-25272406-20140912122058

JOA20 wrote: ShaRin'negan94 wrote: could someone please explain to me why so many people think that Sasuke is a murderer or killer, compared to everyone else ?

Sasuke only killed 3 persons: Itachi (ok Itachi died because of his illness, but if Sasuke had the chance in killing him he would have done it), Deidara (actually Sasuke didn't even want to fight him and his death was more a suicide) and Danzo (this also was a suicide but Sasuke would have killed him either way) all of these persons are definitely not innocent (especially not Danzo)

So Sasuke is no more a murderer than everyone else in NARUTO. You forget about the fact that Sasuke was planning to destroy a whole village, killing shinobi and civilians alike. Sasuke captured B on behalf of Akatsuki, and that was considered the same as attacking Kumo, since B was Kumo's guardian, the Raikage's brother and the Eight-Tails' jinchuriki. Sasuke partnered with Akatsuki, attacked a Kage Summit, was Orochimaru's disciple. The only thing he did that would be considered good would be killing Itachi, a S-rank missing-nin that massacred an entire clan and became an enemy of Konoha. Intervening in the Fourth Shinobi World War on the Alliance's side may ease others' judgement on him a little, but he would still be captured and accused of treason, and thus sentenced to death or life sentence.

Planning to do something and to actually DO it are quite different things, so you can't really count it. Capturing B on behalf of Akatsuki is nothing different than getting a mission from your Kage to assassinate somebody. interrupting the Kage summit was technically only to catch Danzo. (the other Kages attacked Sasuke and he was protecting himself, he only wanted to get Danzo)

At some point all the villages fought against each other and tried to destroy the others

It's just this parallel thinking that annoys me: When somebody of the "good guys" defend themselves or kill somebody (because of a mission) it's justified or a good thing When Sasuke kills somebody out of a strong personal reason (which is in my opinion far more justified than because of a mission) he is the "evil asshole"