User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20160816020851/@comment-4867780-20160818222932

Thank you ^ ^ I did try to make him an interesting round character in a realistically human way, rather than a Superman-like boyscout or a Darkseid-like tyrant. Classics are eternal and much more reliable in professional works, but they generally lack the depth and complexity that makes them feel like real persons and makes stories really interesting.

I do agree that people with power are free to use it as they see fit, just like people with money are free to expend it in any way that suits them. But to me, it is only true as long as you show proper respect to the people around you. Past this point, you are just a bad guy like any other, and no amount of privilege can change that.

I get the feeling you're somewhat confusing the concept of "possibility" and "rightness". Just because you "can" doesn't mean it's "right". It just means that you can, and whether it's right or not is an entirely different question. In a way, you could even say that "might" is actually the opposite of right, as the use of superior force nullifies and replaces any given "right".

So technically speaking, might is right so long as they are in synch, otherwise might is just the death of right, destroying civilized society and bringing us back to the un-law of the jungle.

An excellent question ! I was just thinking about it too. Truth be told, it is both : a general condition of lasting enjoyment and a defining part of himself. One of the important things to understand personality-wise regarding Lawrence is that he wasn't born a blank page like natural humans typically are.

His core personality was mostly inherited at "birth" alongside his sentience from the first human he merged with, and while complete understanding of every past experience granted him much greater wisdom, the person that he is was essentially determined at this moment through permanent identification (basically the same reason he remained a straight human male in his mind all this time, despite being able to take on any form and trait).

If he was born a blank page, he would most likely have grown into an unfettered hedonist always pursuing his maximal satisfaction at the exclusion of everything else, just like an almighty child would have likely never matured into an adult, because young children are voracious egotists and being born this powerful means he wouldn't have to compromise or understand, as nothing could stop him from doing whatever he wants anyway.

So the explanation is that Lawrence was born a mature adult from a fairly respectable human, who wanted to have a good life while refusing to make other people's worse, not because he personally cared about them, but because simply he grew up into a fair and honest person.