Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-14138255-20161120163758/@comment-14138255-20161121023606

Terminus99 wrote:

But Raven isn't exactly wrong, '''Qrow did abandon the people who raised him. Yes they where bandits, and Qrow probably hated every moment that he spent with them (he probably never even considered them family)''', but that doesn't change the fact that he simply abandoned the people that cared for him when he was a kid. That's not how socialization works. When you are raised a certain way, you tend to take that certain way to heart. Typically people only begin to rebel against it when they are teenagers, after socialization with other teenagers with radically different lifestyles for awhile. Teenagers/Young adults then begin to question their life and come to their own conclusions.

Qrow could have had doubts about raiding other people's villages, but chances are he relied on the gains made by the raids as anyone else did, so it was strong vs. weak no questions asked, and the strongest kept the food. After going to Beacon and seeing the otherside, interacting with so many different people and living a good life for the 4 years he was there, he questioned his clan's ethics and concluded they were wrong for hurting other people for their stuff and leaving them to the Grimm, finding his calling as a Huntsman, dedicated to fighting the Grimm and saving other people.