Talk:Seidou Takizawa/@comment-178.82.48.20-20150624163130/@comment-10733658-20150626160159

^ The comparison is a matter of environmental factors, and how much control the person had over them.

Takizawa was captured by Aogiri two years prior, and subjected to extensive experimentation and torture. He's also very clearly suffering from serious mental illness, as a result of what he's been put through. He was about 21 when he was captured, still very young and already shown to be a very naive/impressionable person.

Beyond that, there are hints of extensive psychological torture and manipulation. He very heavily imitates Eto, both in mannerisms and the ideology he discusses. I think it would be fair to say that he's probably been brainwashed (not the fictional version, but genuine real life brainwashing/conditioning) and suffers from Stockholm Syndrome.

He states that CCG uses and abandons people. Obviously, he was made to feel used and abandoned.

Likely, as is the case in many abuse or abduction cases, he came to believe there was no escape. Especially considering how he knows CCG handles Ghouls, he likely felt Aogiri was now his only hope because he had no where else to go.

He's very clearly been manipulated to target Kaneki, using all his insecurity and jealousy.

They made him eat his mother. That alone would probably cause massive psychological trauma.

It's clear Aogiri has spent considerable time destroying him, psychologically, and molding him for their use. He's very much a victim in all of this, with a diminished ability to make decisions for himself.

In real life, few legal systems hold victims of extensive conditioning or captivity situations responsible for their actions. The ways in which captivity or abuse can change a person is genuinely terrifying.