Originally Posted by
TeChameleon
While I'll mostly agree that the other characters have had similar backgrounds to John, there is one glaring exception to the 'he's had it the same as them'- namely the intensive, government-sponsored brainwashing that brought out the 'helmet-hair' persona.
John's got some problems- he appears to have some untreated mental illness, and he needs to learn to take responsibility for his mistakes without tumbling into a destructive spiral of self-pity and -loathing, but he's a child (adolescent, whatever) in a very, very sick society, and I can't really blame him for a lot of his screwed-up-ness.