He's going to mark this day on the calendar for two reasons. One his brotherdad returned from the dead and two, he's right about something and it has to do with dicks. Wait a second. Great. Never mind it's not getting written down it'll just have to be the brotherdad returning from the dead thing. A non-committal shrug is all he has for their aim in it, "There's shit out there that's big and bad and not everyone in this place can fight." It's not like it's Dave's biggest greatest thing he wants to do either, he hates it, but it's a skill he has. "Yeah. I was thinkin' 'bout it. Just. I dunno. There's a ton of shit here but at least I know I can fall back on what I know."

Fighting has its purposes. Dave knows it's dangerous for him, too, if he's fighting for a purpose that isn't just 'okay sounds good' he can die.

"I picked up a dictionary and got bored one day, those two had a definition and I liked what it said." that's how he became moral and upstanding. He hates how fun it is to just trash talk with Dirk. It's infuriating in the best way that he has this now but they didn't have this back then.

As for being not called out. Maybe in Dirk's mind he hadn't but Dave takes it as maybe Dirk wanting to move and sits up a bit. "Sorry, I got lazy for too long." It's not at all that he's been enjoying not having to go at each other's throats after being in the room for more than a half hour together.