Are broad-minded people necessarily irresponsible?

What does it mean when X is a friend to Y? It means X feels what Y feels. “Two minds with but a single thought.”

In this scene, the fox spirit and the boy are both feeling despair, but the boy wants the fox spirit to go and the fox spirit wants to stay with the boy. On one level, they feel the same way, and yet on another level, they feel very different desires.