Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26006790-20140725193452/@comment-133597-20140729040549

Both sides make good points, but I'm more on Ten Tailed Fox's side of the argument. There have been examples of kids who have had just as bad if not worse childhoods than Sasuke (and I'm sure countless others throughout history, both civilian and shinobi), but turned out to be much better people in the long run, and the main differences between ones like them and ones like Sasuke is, as TTF said, the choices they made in the face of their darker moments. Even trying to say "manipulation" doesn't work entirely when one considers that, when confronted with that very fact several times, Sasuke either said he didn't care so long as he got what he wanted, or would shoot back that he knew, but that he was the one using them.