Talk:Kishou Arima/@comment-202.67.37.36-20160403002645/@comment-10733658-20160403051706

I'm not being selective, and the comparisons that you're bringing to the table are.....actually not very effective at all. For one thing, you're comparing mistakes teenagers made as a result of strong emotions and/or explicit manipulation, which they have since acknowledged explicitly as having been mistakes. And they really have no bearing on the very different events which are taking place right now. In fact, it seems to be grasping at straws to bring in some criticisms.

What the rescue team is doing is different from what Kaneki is doing. Both are taking risk through saving Hinami, but their intentions and motivations are worlds apart. I honestly cannot believe you don't see that, when Ishida has explicitly had the characters tell us as much. The rescue team is taking a huge risk, but they are hoping to survive and are fighting with everything they have to save not only Hinami but themselves as well. Yomo is willing to risk his life to save Touka and Ayato, because he believes that it is important that these children survive to carry on the legacy (hopes, dreams, memories, FAMILY LINEAGE) of himself, Hikari, and Arata.

In contrast, Kaneki explicitly tells us what his intentions are. They are simply to "die in style", to do something to martyr himself so everyone will love him. He is mimicking the sacrifice he believes Hide made for him, but it's hollow in comparison. Instead of simply ending his own life, he wants a big and dramatic production. He wants it to be major, and towards that end he is rescuing Hinami so that he will be "sacrificing himself for another" and also creates the motivation for Arima to kill him.

Kaneki has no intention to survive. He doesn't value his own life, and has placed numerous people into harm's way to achieve this end. He's releasing prisoners to fight the prison staff and Investigators, knowing there will be deaths on both sides. He's unable to see and acknowledge how many people value him, and want him to live. In his current state, he can only think of doing something to make people respond.

As the child Kaneki said, he didn't care if it was a good or bad thing. He just wanted to do something huge to make people love him, before killing himself. And he's using Arima as his executioner, while completely disregarding how much damage losing him once did and Hide's desire to prove the value of Kaneki's life.