Quote Originally Posted by Anteros View Post
I mean, the "brainwashing" was just making him live through the suffering he inflicted on others. Yeah, it clearly messed him up and gave him issues, but it's also the only reason he stopped being a monster for a while. John became a monster all on his own well before any of that happened. Obviously the growth he's having now is much healthier than the brainwashing was, but he can hardly blame that for his problems when he was acting the exact same way before it happened.
I'd say the brainwashing was more "forced PTSD by way of forcefully reliving your bad actions while someone charms you to believe you're inherently a worthless sack of crap because of them over and over and over and over.....", which is utterly reprehensible, no matter who you'd use it on.

And in this case, particularly reprehensible, because it was used on a freaking teenager.