This comment was posted at Comment: 308.
It is a child as well, fancy
that!
Savvy, how you feel about Pseudo now is understandable and unproblematic, in my opinion.
How you felt about him in the past, on the other hand, where you elevated him above yourself, was not, and is greatly contributory to the intensity of your current feelings, the way I see it.
If you had only treated him as an equal from the beginning, skeptical of his powers of insight and empathy, you wouldn't have experienced nearly the shock to find he has terrible flaws that are not just pitiful but personally offensive. The pity was in no way detrimental to the kind of deification that Pseudo has been allotted, but the offenses tear down the facade fairly quickly.
How you felt about him in the past, on the other hand, where you elevated him above yourself, was not, and is greatly contributory to the intensity of your current feelings, the way I see it.
If you had only treated him as an equal from the beginning, skeptical of his powers of insight and empathy, you wouldn't have experienced nearly the shock to find he has terrible flaws that are not just pitiful but personally offensive. The pity was in no way detrimental to the kind of deification that Pseudo has been allotted, but the offenses tear down the facade fairly quickly.