[Well, it just wasn't logical to live in a mess. There were things that worked and things that didn't. He doesn't consider it a similarity, though. It would take much more time than he'd care to spend to see similarities between them.]

... if I can speak bluntly, [which, what a funny statement for the two of them right here right now. He really shouldn't speak bluntly. Still, he was asking permission without waiting for it to be granted. It was just in his nature to speak bluntly. It was in his nature to examine a plan carefully and consider those flaws, even if it belonged to his enemies.]

Just targeting the children won't send a message. It just shows you're merciless. [Shigaraki has enough tools at his disposal to prove he was merciless whenever he wanted. People would be scared. They wouldn't change. They'd either accept the inevitability of villains or search for another hero.]

If you were to do something like that, you'd want to point the blame at institutions. Either the hero prep courses for sending kids out too early or the government for allowing them to get licensed in the first place.

[... it was also technically in his own interest, to imply that students wouldn't need to be sought out, crippled, traumatized, or killed.]

That's just what I think. [And back to eating his fries, glancing at the ticker scrolling by on the bottom of the monitor screen.]