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whoa we touched upon this in a thread I started a few months back called Splinter Has Nobody which got pretty heated and contraversial. But it dealt mainly with the New toon version of Splinter, which gave him a more honorable reason to want Shredder out of the way. All though you can still see his loathing and desire for revenge (or has he puts it justice) come through in the episodes that involve the turtles meeting the Shredder for the first time.
My opinion, Splinter is a flawed yet very nuanced character that isn't perfect and certainly isn;'t always right. He did indeed train the boys to kill Saki out of vengence and nothing else really honorable like he's been made to be in other mediums. Which might people raise their eye brows in disapproval, but if you put your self in Splinter's place and some you loved was murdered--wouldn't you want to get them too? I don't think Splinter showed good judgment in this vengence thing and its reprecussions, but I don;t think he intentinally put the turtles lives in danger.
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