But the thing is, he can try and change for a person, or he can try and do some of that work because he wants to - and what he is struggling with now is who he wants to be - to strike a balance between being a lone wolf who doesn't have any ties, and somebody who is a predator and doesn't deny it but who won't kill you *just* because you annoy him for two seconds.
Yes. I've just been reading some philosophy (okay, it was "Star Trek and Philosophy") and it occurs me to that what Damon needs to learn is to think of humans as "ends unto themselves" and not as "means unto another end", which is really what he does with most people. Which doesn't mean not taking care of threats, it just means taking the other person into account as a person, instead as a salad bar or a blank wall to talk at or a way to vent his rage.
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But the thing is, he can try and change for a person, or he can try and do some of that work because he wants to - and what he is struggling with now is who he wants to be - to strike a balance between being a lone wolf who doesn't have any ties, and somebody who is a predator and doesn't deny it but who won't kill you *just* because you annoy him for two seconds.
Yes. I've just been reading some philosophy (okay, it was "Star Trek and Philosophy") and it occurs me to that what Damon needs to learn is to think of humans as "ends unto themselves" and not as "means unto another end", which is really what he does with most people. Which doesn't mean not taking care of threats, it just means taking the other person into account as a person, instead as a salad bar or a blank wall to talk at or a way to vent his rage.