Thread:Omega64/@comment-4503935-20190703001710/@comment-10330822-20191226075945

Well, that stuff if also screwed up because the anime took so much liberty with it, making Root like this evil organization that needed to be exposed, when, for the most part, it wasn't like that at all.

The only thing really bad with Root was that Danzo abused his power over it to try and increase his chances of becoming Hokage. That it what lead to a lot of really bad stuff happening, like them selling out the Akatsuki, leading to the Amegakure coupe, Nagato basically becoming a villain and starting the new era Akatsuki with Tobi. It all basically comes back to Danzo's under the table deal with Hanzo. You also have him pushing the massacre of the Uchiha in part because he wanted the power of their Sharingan and he also carried those same prejudices that continued from Tobirama's era.

In truth, Root's actions were severe, but on some level, might have been necessary. We only see the results of their training, not really what kind of missions they went on that supposedly made that training worthwhile. So, also we can do is judge the severity of their training, when in reality, that may have made it easier to cope with the mission if it was really the wet works/black ops sort of work that it was made out to be.