Tobirama said that the Sharingan kept evolving with the hatred they keep creating in their heart, after the lost a love one, or their desire to get revenge on the person who take away their love one, in other words the Uchihas are a bunch of whiners who refuse to accept reality or move on while keep relaying on the hatred in their heart.
That ins't a mental condition, is a problem they refuse to fix.
The problem is that he goes into detail about the chakra pathways and so forth -- it is essentially a biological and psychological condition. He didn't say they were people who couldn't accept fate, he made it sound like a physical improbability.
In real life, a lot of mental conditions are also
hypothesized to be caused by irregular neural pathways, because nobody has a strong evidence to back up these theories yet. That is why some of the drugs used to treat those conditions aren't very effective -- we still don't know what we're trying to fix.
You see Kishi, this is what happens whenever you try to make every villain in your series sympathetic. Can't you just ever create a character for once, just once, that is evil just because he's simply a kitten? Don't even try to absolve the a**holes of the Narutoverse from any responsibility for their actions. If the Uchiha are a clan that's genetically wired to become butthurt whenever kitten starts to get real, then that's all the more reason why every last Uchiha should just die already. Why waste time attempting to redeem Sasuke when it would be more practical to off that psychopath as well as Obito (I didn't include Madara because he's technically dead so Obito and Sasuke are the only living Uchiha left). Kishi has failed to convince me that Sasuke should get a redemption with zero consequences but has only strengthened my belief that the total genocide of the Uchiha is justifiable since their genes make them incapable of letting go of the things they cherish which turn them into selfish homicidal a**holes who let their emotions dictate their irrational behavior.
EDIT: I still like the Hokage interactions and personalities.
I think the fact that Kishimoto dedicated the first part of the manga to "best friend and rival" Sasuke was a dead giveaway that he would be a sympathetic villain. I do agree that the fact that Sasuke being affected by some genetic disorder really cheapens his character -- and by extension, it also cheapens Naruto.
I guess we should wait. People were upset when Pain revealed the motive of the Akatsuki was to take over the world, but that seemed to have died down after the Invasion arc was finished.
Edited by Nefertieh, 13 February 2013 - 05:45 AM.