Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
It's hard to support the idea that the "efficient ninja" approach is the best solution when the problems wouldn't exist at all without others taking "efficient ninja" approaches in the past.

Basically, everything that's wrong with the Naruto world can be traced back to people doing things the "deception and murder" ninja way in the past. So forgive me if I don't give a character props for being awesome at the thing that causes every problem in the series.
There are some exceptions. Orochimaru is one of them. Unless my memory fails me, at some point he simply started to get crooked with no specific reason. He was well respected in Konoha, and I don't think anybody caused him such harm that it would have pushed him to become the monster he did. He simply grew that way, being the snake he was. In time he did cause such grief to others, though, in the traditional ninja way.