So do you think there was a way to avoid what happened to Gon at the end of the chimera ants arc?

lyraklaude:

Yes, I do. It doesn’t sit well with me that Gon was never reprimanded, never admonished, and was allowed to take big, life-threatening decisions when he was clearly emotionally unstable by the end of episode 116. He was surrounded by several experienced adults – Hunters -, and yet nobody offered the resemblance of guidance or advice. I don’t care how dangerously angry and headstrong he was, Gon wasn’t supposed to leave alone with a Pitou. I don’t care if there was a risk in Pitou taking hostages, someone should have been there with him. Killua and Palm could have left together with him. Palm was a very strong Ant, wasn’t she? Anyway, point is, Gon wasn’t supposed to take decisions and be trusted to stalk off with a mega-powerful Royal Guard like it was perfectly okay. He was too far gone at that point, that he’d been twisted to the point where he’d do anything to get his way. 

Also, it confuses me that nobody suspected that Kite might be dead. Where was Killua’s skeptical conceptual view on the world? How come he couldn’t predict the mere possibility of Kite being gone? Or was he purposefully choosing to live in denial like Gon? I don’t know, honestly. Bottom line is: Gon Freecss was a kid going through a wide spectrum of raw emotions, and he wasn’t supposed to be left to handle them all by himself.