Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160807005311/@comment-10390252-20160808102445

FWIW, I'm thinking that Ozpin isn't trying to defeat Salem and end the Grimm menace because I suspect that he knows full well this isn't possible, at least the latter thing is not. I suspect that he knows that there is a certain balance that must be struck; he resists Salem because she's trying to upset that balance but notice how he refused to use the full might of Atlas's military on several occasions and, indeed, even spoke against it on philosophical and social grounds. He wants to maintain the balance, not give humanity a total and decisive victory.

It's this impression that also gives me the feeling that the Grimm are part of Remnant's natural order and thus cannot be permanantly eradicated without disastrously unbalancing the planet's ecosphere.