Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-25409301-20140911182738/@comment-397235-20140912035639

We're allowed to like and dislike whomever we want. That's a part of free will. There are lots of people I don't especially care for, and there's probably a significant number of people who dislike me. So long as we ignore each other, there's no problems. It's when we start trying to ruin each other's lives we have a problem.

I never said what Izumi did was right; I said it was justifiable given only what she knows. She could defend her actions as being in good faith. Compare that to Tomohiko. Kouichi lays it out for him exactly and his response is basically "So? I'm still going to kill you for ruining my life."

If Tomohiko killed the girls for practice, that still proves my point: he only ever wanted to kill Kouichi, and needed to be sure he could before he stepped up to the plate. It also reinforces my belief he's a sociopath. Nobody, and nobody's feelings matter to Tomohiko; only him and what he wants. That's why he had no compunctions about ending the lives of two people who'd done nothing to deserve it (and, so far as I know, he'd never even spoken to), but turned right around and berated Kouichi for something Tomohiko himself would define as an accident. Aki and Kyouko's lives don't matter; Yukari's does because Tomohiko has a crush on her. This is a classic trait of a serial killer: they're incapable of seeing their victims as their equals, as real human beings who have just as much a right to life as they do. The only people who matter to a sociopath are the sociopath themselves and the handful of people they care about; everyone else is just a thing existing for their own use or amusement.

You could see Izumi's happiness around Kouichi as a sign of her relief she's not around Mei...or a sign she's got a crush on Kouichi and is enjoying his company. One interpretation requires her to be fixated solely on Mei. The other just expects her to act like a real person.