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“One of your ANBU was captured during a mission and the village holding them captive demands respirations for his return, lest a civil war is broken out over this incident. What do you do? Your ANBU is potentially compromised. A possible threat, and the demands may be too high to meet. Negotiating has a very slim chance. Consider all factors here; how important is the life of one ANBU to the village?”

Itachi remembers an almost similar question being directed at him by Danzo, when he was seven years of age.

If you were on a boat, and one of your crew members got sick with a contagious disease, which course of action would you take?

The base concept is the same. Sacrifice one for the greater good. 

But Minato’s specific setup was more intricate than presented. 

When he starts, its fast– the speed at which his brain is working at the situation.

“I’d consider and investigate what could possibly lead the summation of a village populace to make demands for the return of a single shinobi. How important is this ANBU, or is he simply the first they managed to incapacitate and capture? Factors such as lack of supplies or making a point to get attention could lead to such an overzealous request. 

Smaller villages may act out in anger due to lack of amenities, their forces usually small. ANBU are trained and prepared to lay their lives on the line for their home village at any time, but in this situation I feel their sacrifice is unnecessary. 

Making a demand too high to meet for the cost of one human life may mean the individuals involve only claim to be speaking for the whole of the populace, and are seeking to take advantage of what they consider weak, that is, the value of human life. In a case such as this, for someone only seeking to hurt instead of an underlying problem, keeping them distracted with negotations while a rescue squad was sent in would be the solution.

I simply cannot see a larger village keeping a hold of a single shinobi, one unit of an entire workforce, and making demands that might put the sum of my village at risk.”