That all sounds like something an old hermit or wizard would say, but I don't really get how fighting makes you better at giving back to the world... maybe I just don't get it.

[he looks with Alphonse with a great deal of interest, though. Alphonse seems like a very smart, thoughtful person.]

You might not be an expert, but you really sound like you care about it when you talk about it. That's interesting.