@Wisshard:
^Perhaps the Amazon's raise their daughters to embrace the qualities/mind set needed to awaken Armored and Observation Haki.
That being said, I don't think Rayleigh would mention that most people can't awaken Haki in their lifetime if he only meant that they didn't know how to do it. Consequently I think that he meant that most people (even with the right training) don't have the potential to awaken their Haki in their lifetime, which suggest to me that they lack something that they can't overcome (in their lifetime).
I dunno, it doesn't seem like that kind of thing would be the meaning to me.
One Piece never seemed to give the vibe of people simply not becoming able to do certain things as the norm.
With qualities, I meant personality/mind set (determination, motivation to see things through etc., since they seem related to Haki), which is influenced and shaped by birth and childhood; I didn't mean to indicate that there is a cool Haki gene deciding who gets it and who doesn't…
The latter is what I've always been against so we pretty much see eye to eye on this.
Besides, we already know the former seems to be the case. Rayleigh's dialouge concerning how people naturally gravitate to one of the two aspects(Observation & Armament) of Ambition as he/she further improves themself. It's not because of genes or anything, but about the individual's desire/will/etc.
I didn't argue that Haki is always innate, I just brought up Aisa since she proves that Haki itself can be innate - that it can be decided by birth.
Well yeah that's why I brought up Teach as a sort of comparison in the other direction. There's always gonna be some sort of oddity and those two seem to fit that to me.
So then we sort of agree on this too…I think.