[one of those weird things about Jackal is that he rarely thinks deeply about this sort of thing, and therefore might be one of the best people to muse off at-- precisely because he is an attentive listener and that he never judges.

he shrugs, but it's not dismissive. it's the shrug of the kind of guy whose field of expertise isn't conceptual musing, and is honest enough to admit it. so he adds his own musings--]

Hey, I don't know about any of that sorta stuff. [concepts, really, things that aren't set in stone.] But what I do know is that if you've got a horse, you feed it, you water it and you raise it until you've got a damn good horse-- and then you breed it with some other damn good horses, so that you get some colts that make good runs.