Talk:Kureo Mado/@comment-203.177.247.121-20160919144544/@comment-4872828-20170312012621

The difference between Kureo and the ghouls is choice.

The ghouls and half-ghouls were either born as ghouls or forced against their will to be ghouls. It doesn't make their actions right or excusable, but their behavior is understandable even when it is unquestionably evil, as in many cases, the few choices they do have are heavily weighted.

Kureo and his wife chose to become investigators and they knew the risks of their job as well as the risks of being together when taking on this job. This is an organization that makes its employrees write last wills and testaments before going on major raids. There's a non-negligible chance that you will get killed if you are an investigator.

If somebody is treated awfully since birth, gets tortured, or is manipulated by their own biology to commit monstrous acts, that individual a lot more sympathetic than a jerk who could step away at any time, is aware of this, and does not due to hatred.

There's also the issue that most of those characters are on the younger side and Kureo is an older man. People forgive Juuzou, too, so it's not solely a "ghouls rule" mentality. It's more the idea that unlike the other characters, this stubborn old man simply refused to change and threw away every opportunity to better himself, if only for the sake of becoming a better investigator.