On the surface this is a no brainer. GJ is often seen as a paragon for morality, always doing what is right no matter the personal cost, while YG is the reckless youth, wild and unpredictable.
However if we look at how their extreme personalities deals with actual problems it becomes a lot less clear cut.
GJ has a very strong sense of innate justice and almost every action he takes is governed by this. Most of the time this instinct is correct and he makes the right choice, but what happens when they are wrong? An example would be when he thought Huang Yaoshi killed his teachers. Here he went totally by instincts, along with very flimsy evidence and came very close to killing an innocent man.
I accept there were many extenuating circumstances and HYS own behaviour did not help, but it was only by pure luck that GJ did not make an irreparable mistake, showing the danger of his moral code.
YG's mistakes are well known, but when faced with a similar scenario, ie. when he thought GJ was responsible for his father's death, he behaved quite differently. He had ample opportunity to kill GJ, but each time he weighed up the pros and cons, looked at the evidence and what he knew of GJ. In the end he made the right choice by doing the exact opposite of what GJ did. He ignored his instincts and studied the evidence.
So which of them is the more moral hero.
However if we look at how their extreme personalities deals with actual problems it becomes a lot less clear cut.
GJ has a very strong sense of innate justice and almost every action he takes is governed by this. Most of the time this instinct is correct and he makes the right choice, but what happens when they are wrong? An example would be when he thought Huang Yaoshi killed his teachers. Here he went totally by instincts, along with very flimsy evidence and came very close to killing an innocent man.
I accept there were many extenuating circumstances and HYS own behaviour did not help, but it was only by pure luck that GJ did not make an irreparable mistake, showing the danger of his moral code.
YG's mistakes are well known, but when faced with a similar scenario, ie. when he thought GJ was responsible for his father's death, he behaved quite differently. He had ample opportunity to kill GJ, but each time he weighed up the pros and cons, looked at the evidence and what he knew of GJ. In the end he made the right choice by doing the exact opposite of what GJ did. He ignored his instincts and studied the evidence.
So which of them is the more moral hero.