"Let me give you another example. In one country, goats are sacred and inviolable, revered as holy creatures. Let's call this country A."
"But in a neighboring country, goats are livestock eaten every day. Let's call this country B."
"If a high-ranking official from country A visited country B and saw his country's sacred creatures skinned, stripped of their sinews, and made into mutton pies, do you think they would fight?"
Itachi Uchiha remained silent for a long while before saying, "...Yes."
"Do you think they could understand each other?"
Itachi Uchiha's eyelid twitched. "They couldn't understand each other," he said reluctantly.
Qian Chongling gave Itachi Uchiha a long, searching look and said with utmost seriousness, "Your ideal is lofty. And the reason it's so lofty is that it's practically impossible to achieve!"
"Living beneath the sunlight, everyone wears a mask to some degree. Yet beneath that mask lies a heart filled with weariness and helplessness. That weariness and helplessness can never be fully explained to anyone else, just as we can never truly understand the troubles others speak of."
"Perhaps, to you, their troubles are nothing more than groaning without an illness, making mountains out of molehills, too trivial to mention."
"But what is the truth, really?"
"Unless you've lived exactly the same life as another person and experienced absolutely everything they've experienced, this so-called 'understanding' is really nothing more than an abstract concept."
"And those who aren't understood can only endure their loneliness alone, grumble to themselves, and grit their teeth as they walk an ever more painful, ever more difficult road."
"In short, mutual understanding really is all but impossible!"
Many worlds were like this. Take the Hokage Ninja World, for example. Its eventual, so-called peace was no different: only after enduring the most devastating war did