Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-128.239.208.159-20160303050623/@comment-25047329-20160304090121

@ Sunako30 I'm all for equal opportunity murder, but I think the guy needs to get to the root of his problems.

Kaneki's not quite comfortable in his own skin. He always had low self-esteem and becoming a ghoul made it worse. He accepted it out of necessity, but was never really given the opportunity to accept his ghoul nature organically. Until he's legitimately comfortable as a ghoul I think he'll always feel slightly more akin to humans. Being okay with taking lives, ghoul or human...I don't think he has to ever really be comfortable with that. It's an awful thing to do and one of the persisting things about his character is his empathy. Even if he looks okay on the surface, it upsets him on the inside and he regrets killing. Ideally, a time will come where he doesn't feel pressured to kill at all anymore.

@ ZERO7772 Yes, in some ways "ghoul culture" is very different from human culture and expecting Kaneki to completely integrate when he only lived in their world for less than a year is asking for a lot. Abuse from his mother aside, he didn't grow up with that kind of violence where he had to kill his own kind on a regular basis for food and survival. It's still somewhat an alien concept to him. He's aware of it, but it's not entirely integrated into him.

All things considering, Kaneki's actions aren't all that bad imo. He leans on the safety of humans, but it's not all that different from humans and ghouls. Kaneki just has more pressure on him because he's 50/50. Humans lean on protecting other humans and killing ghouls. Ghouls lean on protecting other ghouls and killing humans. Kaneki was born and raised human and was thrown into a situation where he's wedged into the middle with one species being extremely alien to him.