Naruto Shippuuden 339

[DarthEnderX]

We all like him because he's the best ninja we've ever seen here, besides maybe Danzo.

He "lost" because Naruto is telling us that (traditional) ninjas aren't the way to go. Naruto himself sucks as a ninja.

The lesson you're meant to draw from the fact that the best ninjas are all the worst people is...ninjas are shitty. They're murdering low-lifes with a thin vaneer of pop culture coolness. And that being a "good" ninja shouldn't be anyone's goal in the first place.

[Buffalobiian]

The lesson you're meant to draw from the fact that the best ninjas are all the worst people is...ninjas are shitty. They're murdering low-lifes with a thin vaneer of pop culture coolness. And that being a "good" ninja shouldn't be anyone's goal in the first place.

I take it that ninjas solve problems using the most efficient way possible. Sometimes that involves killing people. Naruto is an idealist who is somehow able to make it into a reality. In a show it's okay, but in real life the opposite is true. We rever the efficient and the logical while looking down on the dreamers. Dreamers who can make their dream come true are on in a million.

Another way that I think about them is that an idealist (the ones that make it through) changes the world. The realists keep it running.

[DarthEnderX]

I take it that ninjas solve problems using the most efficient way possible. Sometimes that involves killing people. Naruto is an idealist who is somehow able to make it into a reality. In a show it's okay, but in real life the opposite is true.

Uh, no. That's not even remotely true in real life. The most efficient way of solving most problems in real life would also be with murder. It's also the least acceptable.