Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20200129184605/@comment-26636534-20200202103157

Jason of the Mangekyou wrote:

Point still stands. those instances are outnumbered by the amount of time he appears with an active sharingan, either works/.....so gaara would still avoid eye contact with Itachi with a deactivated sharingan, what's the purpose of that? it's harder to avoid eye contact than you think, which is why asuma and kurenai was asked to just close their eyes. Well, the point is that Gaara will have the opportunity to see that it is Itachi and proceed to fight accordingly while avoiding eye-contact. You still don't see why avoiding eye contact is advantageous?