u/Playfulorashamed

The person is Eito Aotsuki.

I want to preface with two things. If you're just biased and hate him, this post isn't about that. People are entitled to having biases as long as they're not overbearing about it, such as twisting the narrative towards their satisfaction. Secondly, I am not condoning any of his alleged actions, as they're obviously awful.

We know that he killed his entire family and burned up the hospital that he was at.

Now, I'm not saying he was anywhere *close* to right, but if your whole life you've been in fear and disgust to when you get to the point you're a child who sees the others around you *only* as monsters, plus read humanity's biggest sins to add on top to relate to the hideous state he always saw humans as, I think you'd start going nuts too and not being able to rationalize people being genuine when every time you encounter a human, you're in physical pain due to the noise and you're scared to death due to how they look. By the time he got his entire family killed, he was a child who just wanted the big, dark, awful, nightmarish figures to get out. You're not going to be able to rationalize that with all the fear in his heart. I genuinely call BS on anyone who thinks they could just stand living in Eito's condition and not be traumatized as all hell. For example, if one would be the type to silently endure it, it's better than them harming others, but you can not tell me they're not suffering every second they have to encounter any other human...

Is he right in his behavior and ideology? No. Is it his fault he has such a hard time processing humans being good to him? Hell no... the only reason Eito was even able to snap out of that mentality is because he realized that he was literally coded to think that way. He realized that he could get past his nature and start bonding with others who were victims like him (even though he's arguably the biggest victim out of all of the SDU members).

I genuinely can't tell how people are saying, "He killed his entire family, that's so evil of him!" when he could never ever experience the concept of family due to his condition. He literally has a barrier that stops him from processing the concept of anyone else being human (in our definition, not his definition) due to himself looking so differently to anyone else.

Morally, I just can't call him evil. He 100% would deserve to be locked up and get an insanity verdict, though.

This, of course, is not meant to target everyone, I'm just here to bring up something that I've seen and heard of that is more common than I'd like it to be. Though, especially because I hear it happens a lot to people around here, I thought I'd drop in my two cents.

Why do certain people straight up mischaracterize canon if they hate on something?

I get if you don't *like* something, but just because of that, you say stuff about them that isn't true doesn't help towards mature discussions. Do they just think only their opinion is the superior one, thus why there's no way they're wrong?

Some people just don't care to actually keep their mind open and just jump based on their impulses. For example, if someone hate a character, at times, you can just hear them saying stuff that isn't true.

A valid critique would be "Toko doesn't get an arc in THH, she's mostly just there for Genocide Jill to have the spotlight, which for her surviving a whole killing game, it's lame because she doesn't contribute to something I care about in the long run."

A critique that is purely biased would be "Toko never develops in UDG and has never had a moment where she cared about anyone else besides Byakuya." Like.. no, that's very much false. The whole journey between Komaru and Toko is about them getting closer to each other. Just because you don't like Toko due to other factors doesn't mean that she never developed or done other stuff.

Toko was just a one off example I had in the back of my mind, but I'm sure a lot of those biased critiques can be applied to those that hate Nagito, Junko, Mikan, ect.

I guess if I had to put my starter question in another way is: do you think it's fair for people to take you seriously if all you do is slander without basis? I'm not saying no one can ever be wrong again, but if you'll just continue to twist everything that is connected due to biases, then how can someone have a good discussion about the material with you?

This isn't meant to be a subjective matter of "I like this character and you don't," but more of "the canon material states this, so your interpretation doesn't work." Some people just aren't ready to hear that, and then get surprised and/or upset when people disagree and call it out.