Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-27623430-20160304153950/@comment-10733658-20160304161045

I think you're forgetting a lot of the little world building details Ishida has slipped into the series. The majority of humans know almost nothing about ghouls, viewing them as basically urban legends or only knowing that they eat humans. We know that even Ghoul Investigators don't know much about them, and now that we are learning more about V.....we know this is very intentional.

Eto's press conference and novel have been a huge bombshell because it completely contrasts with what was "common knowledge" before that. Most people didn't believe ghouls were /people/, but monsters that kind of looked human but weren't even remotely like them. We see a lot of this mindset encouraged, through what little press there was about ghouls focusing on brutal killings or rumors about how vicious ghouls are.

It's human nature to fear what we don't understand or know anything about. We are creatures that naturally feel safest with those like us, and have an instinctive fear of things that are different or unknown. Ghouls are of course frightening, because they are predators that prey exclusively on humans. But it's also human nature to be curious, and to very quickly change our tune once we begin to learn about something.

We know many at the CCG were uneasy about Sasaki, because of what he is. But they were also told to focus on how he's a human being that got his body altered. So even in being uneasy about his powers, there was still the aspect of him having been human most of his life.

The novels are filled with stories about positive ghoul-human relationships and interactions, in contrast to the overall suspicion and fear. Most of the humans in the novels accept ghouls.