[This, Knives can't deny. He struggled to keep his own hatreds and fears at bay on a daily basis and at least maintain outward calm and not act on those destructive, violent habits. Anger came so much easier than calm, but he tried.
He tried very hard. One day he wasn't going to succeed..]
Rage provides little power that I've experienced. Only the blindness to ignore all else in favor of the target.
[It's not an argument for why anger is good. Far from it.]
Were I younger, perhaps such a quick route to power would be tempting indeed.
[Knives still sticks on the idea of power itself being evil. It didn't feel right to him somehow. What one chooses to do with it could be wrong or right, but the power itself..? He thinks about it a moment before putting it aside.]
It's a good object lesson. You should try it, for practice. To weigh another's perspective as neutrally as you can, and to keep one's own biases and expectations out of it is an incredible struggle but often valuable. ..Perhaps on something not quite so potentially corruptive as this Dark Side, but other things.
[Action with a stethoscope.]
He tried very hard. One day he wasn't going to succeed..]
Rage provides little power that I've experienced. Only the blindness to ignore all else in favor of the target.
[It's not an argument for why anger is good. Far from it.]
Were I younger, perhaps such a quick route to power would be tempting indeed.
[Knives still sticks on the idea of power itself being evil. It didn't feel right to him somehow. What one chooses to do with it could be wrong or right, but the power itself..? He thinks about it a moment before putting it aside.]
It's a good object lesson. You should try it, for practice. To weigh another's perspective as neutrally as you can, and to keep one's own biases and expectations out of it is an incredible struggle but often valuable. ..Perhaps on something not quite so potentially corruptive as this Dark Side, but other things.