Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-26269248-20150702033023/@comment-76.17.103.248-20150718174612

To Theomegawolf

As I said in the previous post, Jason Rothenberg DID confirm the PTSD in two or three interviews posted online. I think he also mentioned it on twitter, but my memory is a little fuzzy on that one. I don't know why some of the posters here refuse to accept that. People get damaged. It's a part of the human condition. And that damage can and often does inform their behavior. Are there other character flaws that factored into this tragedy? Maybe. But if PTSD wasn't involved as well, you'd have to think that Finn was malicious and evil. Given everything we learned about that character, that's just absurd. That's not who he was. You don't define someone by one horrible mistake. You define them by how they live their lives as a whole. Finn was a good and decent human being who got broken by the overwhelmingly harsh environment he was thrust into. He did a bad thing and he willingly paid the price with his life. If all you can do is scream "off with his head" for someone like that, if all you can feel is satisfaction that the writers made him pay, then you missed the point and you dont know the meaning of compassion. Yes, those people at the village losing their lives was a tragedy, but so was the destruction of that 18 year old boy.