User blog comment:Njalm2/Nanja's Point of View: Shinigami Edition/@comment-1493741-20150503073419/@comment-2089817-20150504122730

I just wanted to add something to the inhumane psyche of a Shinigami. Think back to Yamamoto and Mayuri's conversation about the extermination of souls in Rukongai to restore the balance of souls. Talking about living, breathing souls like that as if they were... not even livestock! Just like... some dust to wipe off the counter. That strikes normal people as absurd; immoral and horrendous. Even among the most terrible humans in history, those that committed such horrible acts were those with serious mental and/or emotional problems. These guys are in full command of their faculties and talk about this stuff like it's about what to have for lunch. How can that even be considered close to human? It can't. I'll bring up one of my favorite examples. In Yu Yu Hakusho, Yusuke actually sympathizes with the demons and their need to eat humans to live, because hey, we all need to eat. But when confronted by another human, the former Spirit Detective as it were, she said that for him to call humans "food" so casually... was proof he no longer had a place in the human world. It probably didn't hurt that Yusuke actually did have demon blood in his veins as well. She was a woman who saw many brutal things in her line of work, and yet she was still so offended by Yusuke's attitude about humans and calling them food so carelessly. Psyche also plays a huge role here too.