Talk:Kureo Mado/@comment-38809786-20190314173415/@comment-38809786-20190315064835

Agreed, and I would actually add to what you've said.

The Fueguchi family are often considered to be entirely innocent, but I've always been doubtful as to the truth of that. We are told that Ryouko, "preferred not to hunt or kill people", which doesnt mean that she never hunted or killed anyone, as some would suggest. For Asaki Fueguchi we are given absolutely no backstory, so the beleif that he is innocent is completely unfounded. Hinami is a special case, as its true that she hadn't killed anyone up until till Kureo meets her, but she had still devoured dozens of humans up till that point, and considering she was not part of Anteiku, the nature of whether the people she ate were killed or not is unkown, making Hinami not as innocent as once thought. Moreover, Hinami goes on to become a powerful ghoul that joins Aogori tree, making Mados campaign against her not entirely unjustified.

Something else to consider is simply that Mado was unaware of the innocence of the Ghouls he killed. To him, they were just ravenous beasts that imitated human emotions, providing no cause for him to feel any sympathy for them. Considering how the vast, vast majority of ghouls Mado kills are monsters, how is he to know which ghouls are innocents and which are not? To Mado, innocnet and ghoul do not mix, which, while it doesn't justify his actions, certainly provides an excuse for them.