hello i am itachi uchiha and i love my 7-year-brother brother so much that i accepted the mission of slaughtering our entire family with the sole condition of sparing his life!! i didnt want him to die in a civil war or see the horrors of one; sasuke's life is more important than anything for me. that's a very lovely decision from my part; comitting a fucking genocide against his entire bloodline to protect him from a hypothetical war is the ultimate sacrifice!!
its not like i took away from him — in the most brutal way possible — the right of any sense of identity, culture and belonging in the world; its not like i tortured, brutalized and forced him to watch the genocide of his people thousands of times, over and over again; its not like, right after all this, i left him alone in the destroyed uchiha compound to clean his own parents' blood and live a completely miserable life through the horrific and cruel parameters i've set; its not like all i did was constantly deshumanizing, traumatizing and completely destroying this very life that i wanted soo much to spare, okay??!
because, at least, he's alive; he's not dead, you know. so who cares if he's suicidal and has a very fucked PTSD, right?? who cares if he has to live with the burden of being a genocide victim everyday — dealing constantly with the torment of survivor's guilt, horrific nightmares and a lack of identity and sense of belonging in the world — right?? what matters is that he's alive and at the mercy of my abusive, destructive and twisted love, right?? a very beautiful and lovely sacrifice, right??