[There's a pause, and for a moment, you'd think he might have hung up. Slowly, he starts speaking again. Cool, but not necessarily detached or malicious.]
It isn't just a matter of getting hurt when you try and help them out, kid. The fact of life is that people will hurt you regardless of what you do. And you have to be prepared for that to come, because that's most people's default setting.
Most. Not all. And even I'll admit I take it to an extreme. But I need to, otherwise I'd have been dead even before I started doing what I'm doing now.
...Yeah. You can believe in those. But they're insubstantial to me, and I think you're crazy for believing in them. But whatever. I'm not going to deter you.
And it's more than that. People are worth whatever you TREAT them their worth. You treat someone like they're a king, boom, they're a king in their own eyes and most others. Same for if you treat someone like trash.
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It isn't just a matter of getting hurt when you try and help them out, kid. The fact of life is that people will hurt you regardless of what you do. And you have to be prepared for that to come, because that's most people's default setting.
Most. Not all. And even I'll admit I take it to an extreme. But I need to, otherwise I'd have been dead even before I started doing what I'm doing now.
...Yeah. You can believe in those. But they're insubstantial to me, and I think you're crazy for believing in them. But whatever. I'm not going to deter you.
And it's more than that. People are worth whatever you TREAT them their worth. You treat someone like they're a king, boom, they're a king in their own eyes and most others. Same for if you treat someone like trash.
That's how I view it, anyway.