He seems too compassionate and has too similiar issues, to remain sane when he's doing torture to others a lot.
He has his regrets and his unspoken sources of unhappiness, but he is fully sane and compassionate - admirably so - and I think if he were really an ex-torturer he'd be a quite different person.
Which is not to say I don't think he is capable of hurting people if he really believes he must - just that there's nothing systemic about it, and he sees it, like killing, as a very last resource in extreme cases.
Re: and other heroes
Date: 2007-03-01 02:03 pm (UTC)He has his regrets and his unspoken sources of unhappiness, but he is fully sane and compassionate - admirably so - and I think if he were really an ex-torturer he'd be a quite different person.
Which is not to say I don't think he is capable of hurting people if he really believes he must - just that there's nothing systemic about it, and he sees it, like killing, as a very last resource in extreme cases.