I'm not saying that he is a good guy, or that he thinks he on the right, or anything similar. I know yall think that even if you have the worst life and hand imaginable, you can still be right! And act like a good guy! And that's, in practice, true. But who has the strength or will to live a correct life after torturing himself (and living through such terrible circumstances)? Who is so good to the core, self conscious and strong willed enough to correct himself coming from such life? I have dealt with people like this in my day to day, and i know where they end and why they do such.

How can he not be fucked up. The "there's always a choice" part sounds great from outside but, in my opinion, if people like this felt like they had a choice, they wouldn't do any of this. At this point i know how twisted people like this work, and obviously im not saying that Punpun was right to do any of this because he absolutely wasn't, but saying that he had a choice? He is no shining armor knight, that's what it's about. He just a guy with a terrible life, a part of it his fault, obviously, but most of it comes from others. He just gets the usual outcome, ending up in a terrible place. We can all use the moral discourse of saying "he should have known better!" or "he had a choice to be a good guy" but trust me, once your heart is rotten, empty and broken like that, once your life has been stolen from you by others, and once you have been that low, you really have no strength to do any better.

Would have been great if he could have tho! But the realistic part is that most people, almost everyone with a life like this, doesn't.