"Midoriya-kun, I'll fight you if you keep talking like that," Paul says, with a boisterous cheerfulness not his own, "I swear on my House and my honor as an Atreides. It's fine. You're fine. You didn't do that on purpose, did you? No? So what are you apologizing for?"
Paul's universe is not one that's kind to any apparent deviation from the norm. For all their advancement in some areas, there are others they've regressed, whole arenas of thought Paul accepts implicitly because he's never been exposed to anything that would persuade him away from them. Illnesses of the mind are primarily viewed as either biological defects or moral faults, both of which should be overcome by force of discipline, and if Paul sometimes struggles to accept that, it's only another failing on his part.
(And if he finds himself, at times, pathological - that's a thought which has no place here.)
"How about I get us some more drinks, instead? Water or liquor, your choice. We may have some fruit powders left for the water, if you'd like that." When in doubt, Paul's found resorting to beverages a good trick.
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Paul's universe is not one that's kind to any apparent deviation from the norm. For all their advancement in some areas, there are others they've regressed, whole arenas of thought Paul accepts implicitly because he's never been exposed to anything that would persuade him away from them. Illnesses of the mind are primarily viewed as either biological defects or moral faults, both of which should be overcome by force of discipline, and if Paul sometimes struggles to accept that, it's only another failing on his part.
(And if he finds himself, at times, pathological - that's a thought which has no place here.)
"How about I get us some more drinks, instead? Water or liquor, your choice. We may have some fruit powders left for the water, if you'd like that." When in doubt, Paul's found resorting to beverages a good trick.