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He's not trying to justify his actions and say the MC is good. He's very clearly not, and is plain evil in the eyes of society. He is literally a demon, having demonic nature. There is no part in this chapter that calls him good or neutral. The author is instead having a gotcha moment with us, the reader. The entire Buddhist part is meaningless to the story, it exists to teach the reader a lesson. The lesson, is that when we read this chapter of a bear slowly and gruesomely devouring a beautiful young girl, we innately feel disgust. The author is trying to test us, why do we feel disgust? Would other similar scenarios make us feel disgust? Is it right or wrong to feel disgust towards a bear eating a pretty girl? The author then gives us the Buddhist perspective - all forms of existence are equal, and we should not feel disgust at a bear eating a girl as that is the nature's fairness and the way of the world. It is up to us the recognize that and understand that if we believe the Buddha to be right, then we should detach ourselves from our attachments to love and hate and observe the bear eating the girl as a neutral action. The author here is strictly rambling about the interaction of the bear eating the girl, highlighting our instinctual reaction to that scene. Obviously, someone kidnapping a girl and using a bear as a murder tool is completely different, and no sane person on earth will tell you that what the MC did this chapter is not evil. The author is not justifying what the MC did but imposing a philosophical challenge on our world views.

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