Uh, if Hazou doesn't hold himself in contempt then he's in denial. We are like a third of the way responsible for bear fascists slaughtering and enslaving a nation of bird people. The 'Team Uplift' moniker is absolute gallows humor at this point. He needs to do better. I don't know that we will ever be able to make up for what happened to the Condor nation, but I think we owe it to them to try.
I'm not saying, 'kill Inoue'. I'm saying that her feeling bad because she's done evil things is appropriate, and not something we need to 'fix'. She'll get through it or she won't. Honestly, if we decide to share in her wallowing a bit, maybe vow to not invent anymore ways of murder (no matter how cool they are) until we trust the people who'd be in charge of how they are used, I wouldn't hate it.
I'd just like to get something out of the way here:
I don't regret our deals with the Pangolins. Trading Skytowers to them in exchange for massive amounts of gold was, and still is, the right thing to do, and I would repeat the deal if we were in a position to rewind time and make it again.
The gold that we've gotten from the Pangolins has been
instrumental in Konoha's search for Akatsuki and Jiraiya's position as Hokage, both of which are extremely necessary for us to actually uplift the world. We can't uplift jack if Akatsuki wins, and if Jiraiya loses the hat then we'll get shunted to some outpost on the border at best. If we actually care about Uplift and aren't just virtue signaling about it when there aren't any challenges, we flat-out need the money.
Yes, the deal has already caused severe negative consequences already. The Condors were enslaved (bad!), and their culture was wiped out (eh). The stakes of Uplift are the literal survival of the human species, the X-risk of the current paradigm and the danger of reaching a point where there will never be any hope for a better future ever because everyone is dead.
If you're not willing to make sacrifices to achieve your goals, you don't really want them in the first place. If Hazou's not willing to get his hands a little dirty to advance Uplift, then everything he's said about Uplift was just empty air, only to be followed when
convenient. I refuse to take seriously the sanctimonious attitude that Hazou has to be a perfect shonen messiah who never does anything wrong ever in order for Uplift to be a meaningful goal. If anything, I would lose my respect in Hazou's talk of Uplift if we found out he expected to accomplish it with no-one dying, a perfect fairy tale happy ending.
Sorry about how aggressive that all was, but I strongly disagreed with the ideas of your post and wanted to make it really clear how I felt about the matter. To be clear, I don't like at all how the deal was necessary, and I'm fully on board with the initiative to gain economic freedom from the Pangolins and stop their Seventh Path tyranny, but making the deal in the first place is not a decision I regret, nor do I think it invalidates Hazou's goals and ideology.
