It's worth noting that the bad guy is about to pwn civilians before the charismatic heroes step in. The most moral action is to beat the breaks off of him and then address the poverty.

Before he had a handle on being the son of a hokage, handler of the strongest village's strongest tailed beast, trained by an insulated line of hokage, and was shown to be the literal and explicit chosen one, Naruto was famous for talking villains down from chosing revenge by relating to their pain and that was neat.