Talk:Karren von Rosewald/@comment-189.217.231.114-20150706072046/@comment-10733658-20150706203533

You're more than welcome to disagree, as I honestly think there is no completely correct answer. Ishida has intentionally given us all these moral questions in the series, and a lot of complex issues to debate.

That said, I actually find it interesting that you've managed to support two concepts that are considered ENORMOUS problems within Criminal Justice and Sociology. You've just given prime examples of the problems with one culture (often aggressively) judging another culture's morals/norms to be inherently inferior, the problems of passing judgment on someone of a different culture based on your own culture's morals, and the problem of Diminished Capacity.

Kanae is an 18-year old boy, raised in a fairly isolated environment where prevailing thought is that Ghouls are a higher-species and humans are a lower, prey species. To his upbringing and Ghoul culture as a whole, his actions are perfectly acceptable. Even if he knows that HUMAN SOCIETY views his actions as wrong, remember that this same Human Society views his very birth as a Capital Crime deserving of automatic execution the second he is discovered.

Again, the comparison to Kureo Mado is a false one. Apples and Oranges, as we're discussing one who is acting as is acceptable within his culture and another who explicitly states he is NOT/gets called out by others for his behavior. Ergo, not comparable anymore than Kanae can be compared to Hachikawa (who tried to kill an elderly human for being in the way). Kanae is, according to his culture and society, not doing anything wrong. Mado and Hachikawa both did things that within their society and culture, were wrong.

And as I stated, Ishida himself has been writing Kanae as a sympathetic character. He's closer to the other young Ghouls in the series (Touka, Ayato, Nishiki) as someone that is immature, emotional, and making mistakes while trying to do the best they can. And ultimately, we see that Kanae is motivated by loyalty and love -- he's doing it to try to save the life of the person he loves the most in the world.