"Very good point. However, I never said conflict is either bad or unhealthy," he said. Of course he was cherry-picking, but it was true. "Still, conflict is for conflict's sake. The only thing to gain from conflict is fatigue, injury, and pain. I do not deny that relief can come from a physical discharge of aggression, but our culture especially encourages aggression. Those who are not willing to listen or understand, going so far as to requiring conflict in order to understand, are not adept at verbal communication. These precepts take into account that our culture is one based on conflict and, thus, requires physical conflict in order to understand the other side. A strict form of communication was not addressed among the precepts, just that it was necessary. How two individuals choose to communicate is up to them. Assuming its through conflict still proves that there is a misunderstanding or an ability to accept. Furthermore, these precepts merely prevent two people from fighting each other to the death for the sake of hoping to understand each other.

"But what about those that wish the end of others, more specifically yourself?" he asked broadly, a sweeping question for the crowd. "Their opinion is that you must die and your instinctual opinion is that you must remain alive. But how should you know that your life is actually beneficial? How do you know that everyone is better off without the other's existance? This is why I've developed Kori no Tate. We don't know for sure what our existance has to offer this realm or any other. We're not entirely sure of the reprecussions we constantly cause by our actions. All we know is that Hollows must die and Pluses must survive in a continued balance for all realms to remain tangible. Because of this uncertainty, simply enduring and defending against another's 'disagreement' is the safest way to ensure that we do not take away from existance what is necessary or keeping an existance that is a hindrance."

Perhaps it went deeper than the children considered possible, but it was around this time that he would hear silence among the crowd. But now was the time to move into the next subject, which was the Soul.

"Everyone is a part of an environment. But how far does that environment stretch? For example, you are all part of the evnironment which is this dojo, but this dojo is part of the district we are currently in. So does that mean our environment is this district? But this district is part of the Rukongai which is further part of the Spirit World. That's a large environment to be a part of.

"And because of each of you is part of the environment, the others around you are part of the environment. Because others are part of this same environment, it's necessary to respect it. You like your environment to be comfortable and safe, so keep it comfortable and safe for others since they are part of the same environment. But what if someone deems the environment too dangerous and must be destroyed? Well, under what authority do they make that claim? What is precisely 'wrong' or 'dangerous' about it and is there a way to amend this?

"Furthermore, how you treat your environment, and even yourself, can and will affect others. How you keep your surroundings impacts the others around you. When you twitch or shift your seating, others are distracted by this, but only for a moment. But this moment was dedicated to you rather than the self. But, then again, others are part of your environment and dedicating some time to others can keep your environment safe and comfortable.

"But the environment doesn't respond without stimuli, and it doesn't produce much of its own. So if we strip down to the fact that the environment changes due to individuals or groups acting as one, then an individual can be considered 'an environment.'"