Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-12509038-20140830021423/@comment-24577388-20140910024256

Avatar Silver wrote: Spyrocks wrote: Littleone94 wrote: Spyrocks wrote: Spyrocks wrote: NeedleJizo wrote: She was a mother for about an hour, what are you talking about?

She was going to die regardless because of the extraction, and she straight-up told Minato to survive for Naruto's sake, but he was all "NOPE SORRY CAN'T HEAR YOU GOT THIS DEATH GOD BEHIND ME WHOOPS"

What you said about Minato puts me to the question, saying this.

Did he deserve to die for being a horrible father?

And the truth is folks

he did deserve it Indeed. He was a courageous and selfless man, a powerful shinobi, a great Kage and inheritor of the Will of Fire, but no person can do what he did to their child and be called a good father. Sacrificing one life to save thousands? That's sensible. Turning your own son into a military weapon for the sake of a balance of power (even though they never even tried to utilize his power until he was 13) when he had the option to have the Kyuubi killed, even temporarily? Bad father.

By that alone, he destroyed the purpose of love for himself.

No excuses! Are you all on something? There must be some new drug on the market you are all on. What would be the point of killing the Kyuubi if it would just come back and wreak havoc all over again? It would make his sacrifice in complete, total, and utter vain and pointlessness. I completely agree with the first half of your statement about him being a great man, but he didnt seal Kurama into Naruto for him to be a weapon, he wanted his son to be great and utilize the power of Kurama like many others had with other tailed beasts, and he told the 3rd Hokage to protect Naruto and keep him being a Jinchuriki a secret so people wouldnt treat him badly, even though it didnt end up working. Everything he did in his last hours was because he thought it was best for both Naruto and the village. He outright said that night that there needed to be a jinchuriki so the balance of power can remain stable. His sacrifice wouldn't have been in vain if the kyuubi died, because if Kushina took the kyuubi down to the grave with her, Minato wouldn't have needed to sacrifice himself at all. Then, when the beast would reform, he could still seal it away. It would probably still be Naruto who would be the host, but he would have grown up as the son of the Fourth Hokage. Everyone would have respected him as the son of a hero, he wouldn't have been an orphan, he could have had friends and a better ninja career, and enough time would have passed since the attack that a lot of people wouldn't hate him or as nearly much when he became the host.