Talk:Touka Kirishima/@comment-27321383-20160326182240/@comment-10733658-20160402040649

.......no. No, a depressed and suicidal person's wish to self-harm or die should not be respected. Because they are sick, and need people to help them through their depression.

What Kaneki is doing right now is wrong, plain and simple. He is selfishly using Hinami to fulfill his suicidal wish, without thinking about how something like that would hurt her. He is acting in spite of having seen how losing him once hurt the people he cares about, and has been intentionally hurting people around him for six months now.

So he does need the people that care about him to intervene, because he's on a self-destructive spiral. He's in a horrible place right now, and unable to clearly see the actual consequences of his actions.

In terms of Kaneki's flaws, the series has reminded us many times that he shares his mother's inability to let go. He feels the need to place all the burdens on himself, refusing to share them with the people around him and feeling that he has to be responsible for everyone and everything. He takes on too many burdens, when there's no reason to do it. Banjou has said it, Hinami has said it, and now Touka has said the same to Ayato. It's a lesson we hear time and again in the series -- that people DON'T have to bear all the burdens themselves. That it's best to trust and share it with others.