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Kaneki is far from being furuta :/ even if a person pass through the same experience that does nos mean they are gonna be the same because people reacts in different ways to trauma,though I do think kaneki Will show mercy to furuta because that's just the way he is I don't think It's fair to say that kaneki is furuta

I disagree, though I understand what you’re saying. I'll try to explain what I mean.

TG is all about breaking down the dichotomy between black and white, good and bad. The point isn’t “let’s condemn this character” but rather, I could have been this character. Like with the Shironeki and Shiromutsuki phase, it was not “Kaneki=good and Mutsuki=bad” but instead it was to show us how perspective changes things. We sympathized with Kaneki’s actions because we didn’t know his victims. When we did know Mutsuki’s victims, we were horrified. But we know Mutsuki’s and Kaneki’s actions were rooted by the same fears and desires for strength and to protect what they had.

With Kaneki and Furuta, they are both driven by a desperate desire to be loved and yet the feeling and belief that they are unlovable.

So Kaneki copes by: I will never be loved, maybe if I die a hero people will love/regret not loving me.

Furuta copes by: I will never be loved, so I’ll die a villain and punish the world for not loving me.

They both structure their lives around narratives.

Furuta’s never been shown compassion. Not by anyone. Maybe Ami but she seemed like a pretty self-serving person herself so, I wouldn’t even say that. Kaneki has, and that’s the key difference--he had Hide. Furuta never even had the chance to be loved thanks the Sunlit Garden. His own father didn’t know what he looked like. And Eto picked up on that. The reason Furuta lashed out at her was because she called him on his daddy issues.

And Eto is of course a Kaneki foil and a Furuta foil as well (I mean, Eto had her own pain from not being able to address her father and hated the world because of it). So these characters all highlight aspects of each other, and show us what makes the difference that keeps us from seeing them the same way. Eto’s abduction and subsequent torture and experimentation on Kanae is not inherently very much different than what Furuta did to Rize. But the reason Kaneki is not following the same path as Eto or Furuta is because again, he had Hide, he had love, and neither Eto nor Furuta had that. And between Eto and Furuta, the difference is Eto’s father cared for her, though she didn’t know it, and for that reason the audience is drawn more to Eto. But Furuta? His father like he says didn’t even know what he looked like.

The point when reading Furuta isn’t to be like “what a bad dude, Kaneki’s so much better” but rather to realize that Kaneki could have been Furuta but for the intervention of Hide (and later, others like Touka, Anteiku, etc.). Because they are driven by the same basic desires and structure their lives to cope similarly. That’s what I mean when I say Kaneki needs to realize Furuta is him. Not that he did the same things, but that he could have, and in a world like TG wherein every single character has done awful things, realizing that you are not inherently different than anyone else or “better than” any choice goes a long way towards establishing revolutionary empathy... which after all is supposed to be the main answer to the series as like one of the earliest chapters told us.