Seriously all youre doing is assuming and predicting what you cannot prove, you don't know for sure if a civil war would've broken out nor can you know if lives would be lost or not. Who know's what might've happened, not every argument is solved with the killing of people.
And wtf is up with that little piece of text about Sarutobi? I know full well when he died and the flow of time during the manga but amazes me is that your answer is not even close to what I said. I'm saying if Itachi didn't kill the Uchiha and assuming no civil war would've happened the Uchiha would be there to help out when Orochimaru invaded and Sarutobi didn't have to die just there.
And lol at if they both didn't do what they did Konoha would no longer exist? That's a load of rubbish...
I know reading is hard, and formulating proper responses to said statements is a challenge but please try harder next time. Oh and FYI this is just MY opinion as to why I think Itachi is not as great as Minato.
War would have broken out. You're simply assuming that it wouldn't have. Why then, did Madara say "but if a clan like Uchiha started a civil war, it would shake the foundations of Konohakagure and the entire Land of Fire?"
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"Other countries would surely take that as an oppurtunity to attack. No doubt it would trigger a fourth ninja war. Many would die, including those with no ties to the ninja world, all for the sake of the Uchiha clan's self-interest. What would you have done if you were Itachi?"
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"So Itachi made his decision. He would close the book on the clan's history with his own hand. He didn't betray them out of hatred...he had no choice. The village's prejudice...and the fruits of that antagonism. He took it all on himself. No one can blame him for the sacrifice he made."
What do you think about those two pages above? You're underestimating what the Uchiha would have done. When they were relocated to a corner of the village, closely watched by ANBU forces, they took this as sign of what Madara had warned them of years earlier.
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"Eventually the Senju clan would exterminate the Uchiha clan...I couldn't help but think that."
Yes, not every argument is solved with the killing of people, but most are. One thing human beings have been consistently good at is killing each other. The first recorded war can be traced back to 2700 B.C.E. Surprisingly, war is one of the main forms of human interaction - we have to direct our massive hatred somewhere, don't we? And on each other is where it goes.
If you think civil war would not have broken out, Itachi would have seen this. He would not have killed his clan if he did not think the situation was that dangerous. But it was. If they weren't killed, they were going to kill. No one could stop that - even Sarutobi tried, but he failed too. "It all led to that night," as said by Madara.
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By the way, are you sure the Uchiha would have helped Konoha during Orochimaru's invasion, if civil war had not broken out? They might have taken the enemy's side and try to overthrow Konoha's government and put Uchiha clan members in positions of power. Why do you assume that the Uchiha would automatically help Konoha? The best conclusions, the ones we hope for, are not always realized.
Madara goes as far to say that the Uchiha's civil war would not only shake Konohakagure's foundations, but the Land of Fire's as well. How would civil war have been avoided? Sarutobi attempted negotiation, but that fell through. Violence was the only answer. "What would you have done if you were Itachi?" Answer Madara's question.
