Thread:Omega64/@comment-4503935-20190703001710/@comment-10330822-20191217024016

More like he didn't have the stomach to do what needed to be done for the vision he had. Hiruzen was an idealist and the difference between an idealist and say, a rationalist or a realist, is that an idealist will often want the world to function the way they want rather than the way it does.

So Hiruzen refused to carry out some of the more dirty actions of running a ninja village because he had a more peaceful view of what the village should be about. Problem was, these dirty, under-handed actions still needed to be done for the village's safety and security.

That is why the council had to step up, to do the things Hiruzen refused to do, and by allowing that he gave them more powerful they probably should have had. When you give people power like that, you remove yourself from having the kind of control you should.