Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24860855-20150514231249/@comment-24860855-20150520032847

Minamoto15 wrote: Sasuke's fanbase always amaze me. What they're essentially saying by thinking Sasuke's ideals were better for peace than Naruto's is "dictatorship from the shadows = peace", which is 1) absurd and 2) an oxymoron. Look Naruto's a pretty naive kid, won't deny that, but what Naruto is trying to do is FAR different from what Hashirama tried, and even HIS way led to longer term peace. The funniest part of this entire discussion is that the guy Sasuke killed, Danzō, had the exact same line of thinking Sasuke was using during psychotic "revolution" phase and hardly anyone outside of his herd of sheep bought into it.

Essentially, Hashirama tried to evenly distribute the Tailed Beasts' to each of the great nations and in terms of HIS village, tried to eliminate the framework of clans. The latter goal, was successful for the most part. As someone above me said already, Naruto is trying to bring back the concept of Ninshu, which is drastically different than what's been tried in the past.

To begin with. I'm not a Sasuke fan. But I do like to think critically about how the story would go in different scenarios. With that said, it seems to me that Sasuke had already broken out of the curse of hatred by the time they had sealed Kaguya. He could have easily attempted to kill both Sakura and Kakashi for no reason but instead he chose to incapacitate her with genjutsu and leave her in the care of his former sensei. I think he really did want peace because that's what his brother wanted and he wanted to honor that, although not in the same way Itachi would have. He had to make a hard decision which was to kill his best friend who would be the only one who could stand in his way on his path to achieving peace. I think his path differs from Danzo because Danzo was only concerned with Konoha, even causing discourse (for example causing Nagato to become Pain) because he felt that if left unchecked it would threaten Konoha.

Sasuke on the other hand did not specify peace for only one village. He wanted to be a beacon of hate for all villages to pool together and forget their petty squabbles.

Its a tough concept, how to end Naruto with lasting peace but then again nobody has the answer to achieving lasting peace so I don't think its a failed story but just Kishi's attempt at an answer. Respect for the effort Kishimoto san.