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I kind of said this in another thread, but that thread appears to be fading into irrelevance, and I have more stuff to add anyway. Itachi was faced with a moral dilemma, and of course you all know what he chose to do. However, many people here hate him for his decision, and I understand why they do, but I feel that they are examining his dilemma...selfishly. To those people: please try to read this without letting your own morals distort your perception, or (even better) think about the other people who would be affected by this as if they shared your morals.
If you are saving 10 people close to you while letting 20 others die (which is actually much less severe than Itachi's predicament was), are you not being selfish? You are putting your own and your family's desires ahead of the desires of 20 other people and their families, and damaging many more lives than you would if you chose Itachi's path, which only damaged him and Sasuke.
For Itachi it was more like: you kill your whole family or you become caught in between both parties in a war (initiated by the Uchiha btw) where not only would most of your family die anyway, but many others as well.
Itachi chose to bear the burden not only of his own guilt, but also the hatred of the rest of the Ninja world, who would never know what his true intentions were. By doing this, Itachi saved the village itself from the damage that the coup would have caused, the lives of many villagers, the happiness of even more villagers whose loved ones would not die (including the Uchiha btw), and possibly even the entire village (the damage caused by the coup would leave Konoha extremely vulnerable to any outside attacks).
I hope I accomplished...something with all of this. I don't care if you still believe that what he did was wrong; I just want to make you at least think about it and try to understand Itachi's intentions better.
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I kind of said this in another thread, but that thread appears to be fading into irrelevance, and I have more stuff to add anyway. Itachi was faced with a moral dilemma, and of course you all know what he chose to do. However, many people here hate him for his decision, and I understand why they do, but I feel that they are examining his dilemma...selfishly. To those people: please try to read this without letting your own morals distort your perception, or (even better) think about the other people who would be affected by this as if they shared your morals.
If you are saving 10 people close to you while letting 20 others die (which is actually much less severe than Itachi's predicament was), are you not being selfish? You are putting your own and your family's desires ahead of the desires of 20 other people and their families, and damaging many more lives than you would if you chose Itachi's path, which only damaged him and Sasuke.
For Itachi it was more like: you kill your whole family or you become caught in between both parties in a war (initiated by the Uchiha btw) where not only would most of your family die anyway, but many others as well.
Itachi chose to bear the burden not only of his own guilt, but also the hatred of the rest of the Ninja world, who would never know what his true intentions were. By doing this, Itachi saved the village itself from the damage that the coup would have caused, the lives of many villagers, the happiness of even more villagers whose loved ones would not die (including the Uchiha btw), and possibly even the entire village (the damage caused by the coup would leave Konoha extremely vulnerable to any outside attacks).
I hope I accomplished...something with all of this. I don't care if you still believe that what he did was wrong; I just want to make you at least think about it and try to understand Itachi's intentions better.
