Talk:Re: Chapter 153/@comment-217.209.94.177-20171212092629/@comment-26940038-20171213155405

@Uncle Nimu-Dash

Your opinion on that regard is just a personal one while that's just how the law works. There is a difference between what some person would call a murder and what the law would call a murder.

Of course killing civilians doesn't count as self-defense by itself but doing so as collateral damage while saving your own life is indeed excusable by law. Obviously the scale is a different one since this is a manga and not reality but the point stands and it's the reason why his actions seem so justified by most of the fans.

Again, Kaneki doesn't kill those civilians intentionally. Even if Touka was his reason to try to survive, she isn't the reason to kill those civilians. Wanting to survive isn't a crime, instead it's a motivation that excuses almost everything by law, even harming innocents.

There is no way you could blame Kaneki for not defeating Furuta earlier. On what grounds would that be an accusation?

Of course victims would always think of Kaneki as a murderer but that doesn't make him one. We as the readers are the only ones who can look at everything objectively and that's why people are able to forgive him. Even the in-universe characters who know him personally, be it his (former) enemies or his friends, know partly about the circumstances and that's why they don't hate him for it.

So if we go back to topic: No, Kaneki and Mutsuki are absolutely not the same. Not even close.