User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/I hate Luffy - I worship Akainu/@comment-3986064-20120125165341

Luffy is selfish, ofc he is and I don't see that as something bad, if you think about it, he drags them in all of this, because he loves his nakama as much as he loves his friends, for him the risks don't matter, but he understands them, that's why he trained so hard in these last years, to protect the ones he loves with all of his willpower and he knows now that he can protect them.

He doesn't drag them into danger, but into adventure and he wants to share with them the thing that he loves 3rd most (under his love for meat and his dream). It is normal for him to drag his friends to do the things he loves to do. So for me, he doesn't drag them into danger, but into adventure, also they don't mind the risks, Luffy knows very well what they are all capable of and trusts them enough to drag them all into this. Another thing that you could not see is the TRUST that Luffy has for his nakama along with the other reasons I stated that makes him allow himself to take his nakama into the danger that he is already aware about.

Punching the Tenryubito was the only actual way to get Keimi back, what would he had done other than that? Would he have sent Nami to talk to him? Would she had been able to convince him in any way to take back Keimi or to not kill Hachi? Even if they tried stealing Keimi, they would've have still been hunted down by the marines and there would have been no time to make the coating. It was no real difference if he would've done it or not.

And it would make my comment super long to combat each argument of selfishness you have for Luffy. SO:

What is wrong with being selfish? If you are not selfish then how can you love? Because when you love, deep down you feel the wish for that thing that you love to be yours and yours alone.(ok I stop with my counter-argument on Luffy, because I think I might be taking things too far, but still, you should look at the hero the way you should look at a hero, especially at the best hero character, a character which is still not perfect, but really great, even if he is a moron, he still knows what is right to do, Oda made it that a human character type to have good traits which can be taken to the max and even his bad traits can be taken as good traits)