Nicely put, autolycus.

GOodness and badness are, in the final analysis, opinions. People who do something they believe is bad are damaged by self-division, which is often a response to emotional overwhelm or physical pain. It is a form of unrecognized damage to the being that his life had brought him, from his own choices, to a place where he cannot wholly be himself and must surrender his integrity or be swamped and lost, or so it seems. Actually, integrity is the sole life ring under such circumstances, but that is a lesson slow and hard in the realization,.

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