[It seems to startle him to hear it phrased like something even remotely positive.]

Someone inflexible is not necessarily principled. I have my notions of right and wrong... but true north is not assigned a moral value, just a correct one. It's like that.

[He might not have admitted to that if he wasn't under the influence of something. As it is, he seems both highly attuned and extremely blithe to what "correct" is. Maybe it's always been this way.]

What different kinds of victims, Paul?