[kelvie]

Originally Posted by Skyfall

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I don't need to know the reasons behind certain actions to hate the actions. Aono is nothing short of attempting a murder. Unless you are saying that it is ok to murder some one in any other case than self-defense when no other options are available/viable.

I may, or may not understand her reasons (assuming there is something more besides obsession and hate towards Matsuri) once they will be revealed, but that doesn't mean i will suddenly find her actions redeemable in any way imaginable. Murder is murder and mindraping is mindraping, and both are pretty "bad" actions, no matter how you would justify yourself. It doesn't help that i can't see her justification being much different from "I don't want to".

I might be able to feel some sympathy for her situation (as much as i would feel towards any person with mental problems), but it would be a freezing day in hell before i could empathize with her actions. The moment you start using your "reasons" to justify an immoral act, you loose the right to ask for sympathy from me, much less empathy ... at least as far as i am concerned.

For me, understanding why a person does the things he does has nothing to do with my feelings about the matter. And that is why i hate Aono - because i hate the actions she takes.

This is an example of an internal attribution -- you attribute those actions to something that is is inherent in a person's personal characteristics (such as personality), and create judgements based on that

People from Eastern cultures (especially Japan, so this includes the producers) are far less likely to make this attribution error/bias, so you have to keep that in mind. Their market is viewers in Japan, and they perceive social situations in a slightly different way than we do here.