Gongoro's argument is tempting, but Machiko mistrusts it. This is Gongoro's narrow view again—the Yoshida -kai again. It serves only to remind Machiko of the Chairman's warning about the necessary fanaticism of the warrior perspective and the danger of taking too narrow a view on the world. Gongoro's viewpoint seems doubly narrow, excessively fanatical. Perhaps even paranoiac.