[Jonathan studies the other for a moment, his tea cup resting on the table.
After some silence, he smiles.] ...I feel that many of us can have moments such as that. Truly, even I myself have started encounters with others with so much less than kindness...even within the last month or so, [he confesses as he looks to the side.]
...Abbacchio. Whatever you have said, or done toward him- is it anything you would take back, or change? Was it something that perhaps in the moment made sense to your mind, from where you stood and witnessed him? Giorno is a private person- and even I can see how such privacy could be misread, or interpreted as something else. I imagine that Giorno himself is well aware of that as well, [he laughs, his smile warm as he picks up his tea again.] ...But in cases such as that, is it not our actions afterward that truly say what sort of person we are? Not even our actions toward one individual necessarily, but to those others around us?
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After some silence, he smiles.] ...I feel that many of us can have moments such as that. Truly, even I myself have started encounters with others with so much less than kindness...even within the last month or so, [he confesses as he looks to the side.]
...Abbacchio. Whatever you have said, or done toward him- is it anything you would take back, or change? Was it something that perhaps in the moment made sense to your mind, from where you stood and witnessed him? Giorno is a private person- and even I can see how such privacy could be misread, or interpreted as something else. I imagine that Giorno himself is well aware of that as well, [he laughs, his smile warm as he picks up his tea again.] ...But in cases such as that, is it not our actions afterward that truly say what sort of person we are? Not even our actions toward one individual necessarily, but to those others around us?