Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-29450877-20160806230005/@comment-76.5.82.216-20160807194805

I've seen people take both sides too far - "ghouls should be exterminated for the safety of humans," or "humans should be beneath ghouls in the chain." Both sides miss the entire point of this series. It's not "which is better" or "which has it worse" or any of that - it's the struggle between two races to come to coexistence. The CCG and, by extension, V believe humans to be superior, while Aogiri was formed under the banner of ghoul supremacy. Neither of these sides is correct. Using either side's actions during this period of separation as reasoning for the removal of either is shallow, and fails to understand that, during war (which is what CCG vs ghouls is, make no mistake), both sides are going to engage in reprehensible actions. The CCG investigators who either wish for the death of all ghouls or have sadistic tendencies, as well as the ghouls who slaughter humans willy nilly, are both victims of this mindset who have no option but to view their enemy as worthless, because that's what war does. To resolve feelings of guilt or vendetta, one absolutely cannot view their opponent as something as worthy of life as one's self. That was the entire point of Nishiki's backstory. He didn't want to kill and eat humans, but because of the warring mindset that led to the loss of his sister, he grew callous to humans and believed them to be inferior, to be nothing but food, another resource to use and throw away - until a human showed him otherwise. Kaneki's place is as the bridge between them, to show them that neither is better or worse than the other, and ultimately to resolve the conflict. The reason the story is set in Tokyo and not the world is because no one person can possibly stop a global conflict, nor are global conflicts resolved all at once. One individual, however, can resolve a conflict within a small, localized area, which is how all conflicts eventually end - small at first, then branching out to other areas until the global conflict inevitably resolves itself. WW2 did not simply end when the U.S. dropped the a-bombs on Japan, there were a number of smaller conflicts that were resolved both before and after (ex: Japan and Russia).