Then there is very little motivation for me to learn these things. Empathy, compassion, kindness: in my experience all these produce is pain and suffering.
[As usual, Maul's stunted mind correlates goodness with a clear reward, the way that Sidious conditioned him so long to expect. As he goes on, it becomes clear he's not really talking to Ezra so much as he's rambling to himself. It provides a line that traces from where Maul ended the a Clone Wars at as a man in his thirties and how he'd ended up an embittered and worn-out old man by the time Ezra had met him.]
You let people in and they betray you. Or leave you. Almost no one likes seeing the worst side of someone, and when they come face to face with it, their first instinct is always to back away from it. The rare few that are willing to stay are eventually taken away from you whether you like it or not. There's no point in being vulnerable when you end up only being hurt.
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[As usual, Maul's stunted mind correlates goodness with a clear reward, the way that Sidious conditioned him so long to expect. As he goes on, it becomes clear he's not really talking to Ezra so much as he's rambling to himself. It provides a line that traces from where Maul ended the a Clone Wars at as a man in his thirties and how he'd ended up an embittered and worn-out old man by the time Ezra had met him.]
You let people in and they betray you. Or leave you. Almost no one likes seeing the worst side of someone, and when they come face to face with it, their first instinct is always to back away from it. The rare few that are willing to stay are eventually taken away from you whether you like it or not. There's no point in being vulnerable when you end up only being hurt.