These are concerns he's only really voiced to Yamato, something he's starting to view as a mistake. All he'd succeeded in doing was making himself look like a coward and a weak-willed leader, and he was really tired of being lectured how the digidestined were supposed to be lead. Or reminded of how he used to have no problem with rushing into a fight and doing what needed to be done.

Of course, that was before he witnessed all the destruction Digimon battles caused. So many people got hurt because of him, because he had Agumon digivolve without thinking about any of the consequences to others.

"I think it's more they feel that they have to. That fighting is the only option, what they're meant to do. They've been doing it with us since day one, Mimi. It's all they know. Is it really fair that we keep encouraging that?"