Talk:Akihiro Kanou/@comment-187.182.24.53-20171113231446/@comment-10733658-20171113234045

Honestly, Kanou is fairly typical of medical researchers that did horrible things to achieve their goals. While the outcome of their experiments may have been good in the long-run, their motivations were less about "the greater good" and often more about their feeling of being superior/important and justifying their crimes through pointing to a "good" motivation.

I don't think he was genuinely so worried about saving people through medical advancements, as he was basically trying to play god. He saw potential in ghoul research, and decided only he could see the true potential there and that it was his role/destiny to advance mankind through his genius.

Even if ultimately his actions could be good for the world, in the end he was still just doing it for his own ego and destroyed thousands of lives in the process.