"They aren't." Protecting people only treated the symptoms, not the disease. Battles would simply occur over and over again until one side wins out in a war of attrition. That was not going to be his life.

Restoring the past didn't appeal to him either. What's gone was gone, and he could accept that.

No, he was all about forging a new future, and to do that, he was going to have to change the current dynamic.