Talk:Re: Chapter 71/@comment-10733658-20160402094330/@comment-10733658-20160402113914

Oh, I'm absolutely not excusing the things Arima has done. He has done many terrible things and destroyed more lives than we can even imagine. He represents and is the champion of a structure that needs to be destroyed.

He needs to be stopped, and I think nothing short of killing him will open the door to destroying V. As long as he remains their champion, there can be no revolution. Arima is a product of something horrible, but has himself become something horrible as a result. And even the potential horrors of his upbringing cannot justify what he has done. There comes a point where we have to ask how much he has done because he felt he HAD TO (as he suggests as a teenager in Jack) and how much he does because he WANTS TO. He's "sadistic" after all.

I can be horrified for how he came to be what he is, but still recognize him as someone that needs to be punished for his actions.

In terms of the question of hypocrisy, he's clearly not stupid. He knows that his job is exterminating Ghouls for the CCG, as a symbol of their righteous cause(tm). But at the same time, he WORKS for ghouls and has done things like lie when Fura asked him whether ghouls long to live like humans. He claimed he's never spoken to ghouls, which we now know is a bold-faced lie on his part. Whether he has any misgivings about what he does is different than simply recognizing when you say one thing, while doing another. (I mean, one of the books he loaned Kaneki was a book on Philosophy.) Even a Sociopath can recognize, in a purely academic and detached fashion, a contradiction.