User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-5651818-20180219194844/@comment-4867780-20180220114130

It sure does ^ ^; That is one of the reasons I came up with the idea of "prime imprinting", Lawrence's core personality being hardcoded at birth in an unalterable way. It can mature with time and experience, but it can never betray its original values, which makes moral degeneration radically impossible, thus making Lawrence inherently incorruptible, which then guarantees the everlasting ethical purity of the empathy-based utopia he created.

This is also why one of the reasons I made him neutral rather than good : to preserve his own free will by making any good he does his own case-by-case personal choice, while allowing him to also make non-good decisions when deemed appropriate (like answering rultheless behavior in kind, with no hesitation or remorse).

It's quite the double-edged concept though, as if the human who merged with the shard was a mentally deranged person, there would have been no hope for them of ever outgrowing it.

So in a way, the original human was very lucky to be reborn into such a transcendent entity, and the rest of the cosmos is very lucky that said original human was a paragon of fairness.