What is more satisfying?

[dragonballer]

Selfish isn't the word to describe that. Foolish and reckless and even arrogant all apply to Goku, but selfish would imply he doesn't care if innocent people are killed. He does care, and a lot at that. He just wasn't thinking about that because Goku lacks big picture thinking skills. Can we really call him selfish for this decision when he didn't really even grasp the concept that he was endangering lives? He's like an animal, we can't blame him. But when he does occasionally understand the severity of situations, he's never hesitated to risk his very life. That would include opportunities to fight.

Its also wrong to punish someone for a crime they have yet to commit. Once the timeline split it was entirely possible the Androids would never have shown up, Gero could have, in theory, changed his mind or gone another route. Time travel is weird.

People seem to judge Goku based off their own moral standards rather than anything open minded. Blazing in and vaporzing Gero before he actually did anything like the fuzzing Punisher is not what I would call heroic. Goku's morality is pure and more Superman-like.

actually,goku did say they can't kill Dr.Gero because he hasn't done anything bad yet. Also,Goku was really pissed off when Dr.Gero was killing citizens to create "a place without people".

[nickzambuto]

Its also wrong to punish someone for a crime they have yet to commit. Once the timeline split it was entirely possible the Androids would never have shown up, Gero could have, in theory, changed his mind or gone another route. Time travel is weird.

People seem to judge Goku based off their own moral standards rather than anything open minded. Blazing in and vaporzing Gero before he actually did anything like the fuzzing Punisher is not what I would call heroic. Goku's morality is pure and more Superman-like.

actually,goku did say they can't kill Dr.Gero because he hasn't done anything bad yet. Also,Goku was really pissed off when Dr.Gero was killing citizens to create "a place without people".

What? What is your point?

[GodKaio-Ken]

People seem to judge Goku based off their own moral standards rather than anything open minded. Blazing in and vaporzing Gero before he actually did anything like the fuzzing Punisher is not what I would call heroic. Goku's morality is pure and more Superman-like.

actually,goku did say they can't kill Dr.Gero because he hasn't done anything bad yet. Also,Goku was really pissed off when Dr.Gero was killing citizens to create "a place without people".

What? What is your point?

I dont don't want to speak for others...but the debate has turned to the morality of Goku. We were saying it doesn't make him immoral or not heroic to wait for Gero to commit his "crime" as arguments can be made that is actually the moral thing to do.

[dragonballer]

People seem to judge Goku based off their own moral standards rather than anything open minded. Blazing in and vaporzing Gero before he actually did anything like the fuzzing Punisher is not what I would call heroic. Goku's morality is pure and more Superman-like.

actually,goku did say they can't kill Dr.Gero because he hasn't done anything bad yet. Also,Goku was really pissed off when Dr.Gero was killing citizens to create "a place without people".

What? What is your point?

that goku has some righteous mindset similiar to superman.

just to be in topic,no evil caracther has shown that being evil in dragon ball is worth or fun.

[TheGodfather93]

Selfish isn't the word to describe that. Foolish and reckless and even arrogant all apply to Goku, but selfish would imply he doesn't care if innocent people are killed. He does care, and a lot at that. He just wasn't thinking about that because Goku lacks big picture thinking skills. Can we really call him selfish for this decision when he didn't really even grasp the concept that he was endangering lives? He's like an animal, we can't blame him. But when he does occasionally understand the severity of situations, he's never hesitated to risk his very life. That would include opportunities to fight.

Its also wrong to punish someone for a crime they have yet to commit. Once the timeline split it was entirely possible the Androids would never have shown up, Gero could have, in theory, changed his mind or gone another route. Time travel is weird.

People seem to judge Goku based off their own moral standards rather than anything open minded. Blazing in and vaporzing Gero before he actually did anything like the fuzzing Punisher is not what I would call heroic. Goku's morality is pure and more Superman-like.

He didn't have to kill Gero. He could've just busted into his lab, arrested or subdued him, and ultimately stopped him from building killer androids. Also, in case building said killer androids doesn't equate to doing something bad, Gero did use to work for the Red Ribbon Army - who are actually bad guys - and seemingly willingly at that.

Like I said, it's just bad writing and plot contrivances so as to drive the story forward.

[nickzambuto]

actually,goku did say they can't kill Dr.Gero because he hasn't done anything bad yet. Also,Goku was really pissed off when Dr.Gero was killing citizens to create "a place without people".

What? What is your point?

that goku has some righteous mindset similiar to superman.

just to be in topic,no evil caracther has shown that being evil in dragon ball is worth or fun.

actually,goku did say they can't kill Dr.Gero because he hasn't done anything bad yet. Also,Goku was really pissed off when Dr.Gero was killing citizens to create "a place without people".

What? What is your point?

I dont don't want to speak for others...but the debate has turned to the morality of Goku. We were saying it doesn't make him immoral or not heroic to wait for Gero to commit his "crime" as arguments can be made that is actually the moral thing to do.

I'm the person who was arguing this. You guys should tell this to some other person.

[Kanassa]

Like I said, it's just bad writing and plot contrivances so as to drive the story forward.

It's only bad writing if you look at Goku as an active hero rather than one who really only acts when tragedy strikes in his view

Is told strong androids are gonna come start the apocalypse? He'll be excited to fight and will really only train EXTRA hard to fight them instead of stopping them from ever being a threat.

The androids are actually killing people? He'll lead them away to avoid collateral damage.

Goku is kind and does value life, but his major problem is that he is very short sighted, which is even worse for him when his lust for a good battle kicks in.