Why didn't Gohan try to fight Cell or the Cell Jrs. during this part? What the fuck is he doing?

>At no point during the whole situation did Gohan question whether or not it was right to fight Cell.
Why does he spend his whole fight with Cell getting one-sidedly beaten on up to that point then? He would've gone all out from the start otherwise.

Because the kid's obviously nervous and thus more on the defensive. Had nothing to do with him not thinking that fighting Cell was right or anything.

>Had nothing to do with him not thinking that fighting Cell was right or anything.

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Not liking to fight =/= thinking fighting is wrong.

Look, it's your choice if you want to ignore all the evidence I've presented combined with his very passive fight against Cell, but don't act for a second like it's anything more than conjecture.

>Look, it's your choice if you want to ignore all the evidence

What evidence? You posted Gohan saying he doesn't like to fight as if that's somehow the same as him saying that he thinks fighting is wrong. That's not evidence, nor is it even conjecture - it's just a flat-out misinterpretation.

>Gohan saying he doesn't like to fight as if that's somehow the same as him saying that he thinks fighting is wrong.
You're the one who misinterpreted me. I said he had retarded values, Gohan is undeniably depicted as peaceful and pacifistic here for whatever reason which gets in the way of his desire to fight. 16 knows this and tries to encourage him to fight since he feels the same way.
Don't get so hung up on words like "sin", there's no way it's a perfect 1:1 translation.

>he's never fought a main antagonist outside of his anger outbursts

He fought against Vegeta and Frieza, though. He only roided out against Frieza's third form.

You posted that scan in a blatant attempt to prove that Gohan thought fighting was wrong, hence why you greentexted me saying it had nothing to do with thinking that fighting Cell was wrong. Gohan isn't presented as pacifistic, as that would imply that Gohan is against the very idea of fighting Cell, when that isn't the case - he just has no desire to fight him until he legitimately starts pissing him off.

#16 had no idea what was going through Gohan's head at the time, so taking his words as undeniable truth is shaky at best. We see Gohan rationalize that he WANTS to stop Cell when the Cell Jrs. come into play, which proves that Gohan isn't struggling with the morality of fighting Cell. #16's speech wasn't accurate of how Gohan was genuinely feeling at the time, but it didn't really matter because Gohan could still relate to 16's desire for peace, which was the whole point.

>You posted that scan in a blatant attempt to prove that Gohan thought fighting was wrong, hence why you greentexted me saying it had nothing to do with thinking that fighting Cell was wrong.
I did that because that related the most to the image itself, nothing more.
>Gohan isn't presented as pacifistic, as that would imply that Gohan is against the very idea of fighting Cell, when that isn't the case
Regardless, he's still peaceful and had a strong aversion to fighting, which is reflected in how he fights.
>We see Gohan rationalize that he WANTS to stop Cell when the Cell Jrs. come into play, which proves that Gohan isn't struggling with the morality of fighting Cell.
It's not so much the morality, more his personal feelings and values about the matter. He hates fighting through and through here and that ends up holding him back much like 16 said.
>#16 had no idea what was going through Gohan's head at the time
He's still an active viewer of the battle and can read Gohan's actions/gestures.

Nothing was holding Gohan back other than simply not being angry enough to unleash his hidden power. Nothing shocking enough happened to truly trigger Gohan's anger until #16's death, which worked because Gohan hates seeing peaceful things get destroyed. No matter how much #16 was watching the fight, he had no way of knowing whether or not Gohan was holding himself back through doubt or whatever. And as the audience, we never see such doubts in Gohan's mind.

>Nothing was holding Gohan back other than simply not being angry enough to unleash his hidden power.
These are very obvious context clues you still can't disprove.
>he had no way of knowing whether or not Gohan was holding himself back through doubt or whatever
16 wouldn't have been the trigger if what he said wasn't reliable, Toriyama himself wrote this dialogue as well.
>And as the audience, we never see such doubts in Gohan's mind.
Again, very obvious context clues you have yet to disprove.

Gohan just get strong when angry, that's a fact. He could take on el grande padre but he didn't get angry enough at the time