[ To be fair, he’s not exactly trying to find common ground here… Or, more accurately, he doesn’t really think it’s possible with Hayame. These are the kinds of arguments he would genuinely offer, but she doesn’t strike him as the sort to really, well. Care. ]

Is it not? Why, even a wolf would despair a bit if every rabbit in the world were gone, would it not?

[ The predator-prey relationship is clear with that comparison, but he still elaborates a bit more. ]

You are simply upset that my attachment is not based on emotion or sentimentality. But as I’ve neither of those things in any meaningful way, what is there but the practical? No creature wishes to starve, including myself.