[El_Negro]

Originally Posted by Hunter

If anything this chapter confirmed just the opposite. You should know by now that pragmatism is another word for being wrong in this story. The people who always end up right are the (ridiculously overpowered) friendly idealists like Naruto and Hashirama, they are the ones who manage to change things and make them better. Tobirama wasn't right, he merely persevered into making the same errors of the past which paved the way for the same old horrors in the future.

Imagine this world without Hashirama because for all his talk about the greater good of the village Tobirama wouldn't have been able to create it in the first place. He'd never have asked a truce with the Uchiha and in the off chance that it somehow happened the Uchiha would never have chosen him as their leader over their own. This so called rabid clan accepted peace with their mortal enemy, chose the greatest of them as leader and it took then 5 generations of Tobirama's policy + the Kyubi attack and the distrust and segregation that followed for years to make them revolt and plan a coup.
Do you really think that had Hashirama lived the same would have happened? Because it really doesn't seem to me that's what the author is going for. Peace is impossible with [insert any clan/village/people] is what Madara's gunning for but it's not the moral of the story.

quoted for truth