Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
How exactly are you protecting a village by massacring a sizable portion of it?
By preventing a larger, even more lethal conflict.

Remember, Itachi supposedly did what he did because he experience the "horrors of war" at a young age. To him, it was better to simply assassinate the Uchiha than to inflict the full-scale war their rebellion would have caused upon the village.

Again, I don't agree with that. It's more of that bullshit ninja world reasoning. I'm just saying that is Itachi's justification to himself.