It isn't a matter of wanting to. We're raised and trained for that purpose-- to put the clan above all else, to follow the Head's order.

If I simply told them to live different lives, to do as they wished, they couldn't. Freedom, to them, would be hell... they would still be waiting for me to give them other orders.

[a longer pause, there, and he exhales a sigh.]

The best option to give them a better life was to try to restore our clan's position. We couldn't change, but that wasn't stopping the world from changing into one that no longer had a place for us.