Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-28129688-20160524085321/@comment-10733658-20160525204321

^ That's really not an apt comparison, though. Arima's story deals more with lack of agency or control, and the ethical dilemma of judging a child solider.

Arima has expressed many times that he has no control over his own life. He is V's tool, going where he is told and doing as he is ordered. In his youth, we see that this was something he was resigned to, but not necessarily comfortable with. It just was his reality.

As an adult, he is held up as an ideal. He is relatively alone, forming few connections. But he still shows glimpses of empathy, though it seems to be something he has trouble fully processing.

The ethical issues with Arima are that he's a tool. Raised as one, resigned to being one at an early age, and unable to escape it. As Yoshimura once discussed with Kaneki, emotions are repressed in order to endure killing to survive.