Yes and no. Yes, he did consciously attack Glitch but because Maul can't separate the two. As far as how the trauma is manifested.
I'm not liking that Glitch lost his arm. But it would be better to give Maul kindness and understanding in this situation. He can't trust a lot of others.
And in the long term, maybe Maul will be able to overcome his trauma and have fewer out-busts.
[ I'm not liking that Glitch lost his arm. Ozpin actually hisses a sigh and runs a hand over his face, irritated. It pushes up his glasses, already cracked in one lens. ]
'Kindness and understanding' is well and good when the man is not an active threat to the children of this town, Doctor. We do not have time for 'the long term.' How many casualties are you prepared to allow?
[ (If there is an irony here, he does not notice it.) ]
[ Oh, with her blood so freshly on his hands, this rankles in a way he cannot bear. ]
A lovely sentiment, but not one I have found to be true. And I have been looking for a very, very long time, Doctor.
[ Few people understand the meaning of a long time. The Doctor, he thinks, is one of them. The Doctor should be old enough to understand. This is as heated, as viscerally angry, as Ozpin has ever sounded before him. ]
Some individuals can be offered redemption and still choose violence. It is not our obligation to fix them, nor to guide them gently by the hand. Our obligation is to protect their victims by whatever means we can.
We cannot save everyone, and those who do not want to be saved least of all.
[The Doctor is silent for a moment. He pinched a nerve. The Doctor on the other hand has found this to be true. Rose and Jack do stop The Doctor from being at this worst. And a few others here who also have that ability, so to speak. In quiet remarks]
I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry that you haven't.
[Then a bit louder.]
Yes, but the point is to offer redemption. Otherwise, we're not better than them, now are we?
[ But it's from a place of earnest desperation, and he understands. That's the worst of it. Ozpin understands completely.
But it is just not that simple, no matter how fervently he's always wished it to be. There is no neat and easy line to draw around the concept of good. They must all muddle through together, doing what needs to be done.
When he speaks again, it is in a carefully level tone, still tight with emotion. ]
You claim that he is lashing out in fear, not in hatred, and that this behavior can be rehabilitated without further harm to unrelated innocents. Is that correct?
From where I stand, we do not have a jailer prepared, nor a promise of compliance, nor anything else to stop him coming after the boy again. He has targeted Glitch repeatedly, over the network and in person. This is a pattern of behavior, Doctor, not an isolated incident for which he might feel remorse.
I understand the desire for rehabilitation. [ More softly: ] I understand the desire to think anyone capable of redemption. To hope that any one mistake need not define a person, no matter how horrendous.
But I do not see evidence that Maul intends anything but more bloodshed.
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I'm not liking that Glitch lost his arm. But it would be better to give Maul kindness and understanding in this situation. He can't trust a lot of others.
And in the long term, maybe Maul will be able to overcome his trauma and have fewer out-busts.
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'Kindness and understanding' is well and good when the man is not an active threat to the children of this town, Doctor. We do not have time for 'the long term.' How many casualties are you prepared to allow?
[ (If there is an irony here, he does not notice it.) ]
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Locking him up or murdering Maul won't solve anything. Someone or someones needs to be responsible for him.
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You are merely proposing we find him a jailer but spare the cell.
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A lovely sentiment, but not one I have found to be true. And I have been looking for a very, very long time, Doctor.
[ Few people understand the meaning of a long time. The Doctor, he thinks, is one of them. The Doctor should be old enough to understand. This is as heated, as viscerally angry, as Ozpin has ever sounded before him. ]
Some individuals can be offered redemption and still choose violence. It is not our obligation to fix them, nor to guide them gently by the hand. Our obligation is to protect their victims by whatever means we can.
We cannot save everyone, and those who do not want to be saved least of all.
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I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry that you haven't.
[Then a bit louder.]
Yes, but the point is to offer redemption. Otherwise, we're not better than them, now are we?
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Is this how patronizing he sounds? ]
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But it is just not that simple, no matter how fervently he's always wished it to be. There is no neat and easy line to draw around the concept of good. They must all muddle through together, doing what needs to be done.
When he speaks again, it is in a carefully level tone, still tight with emotion. ]
You claim that he is lashing out in fear, not in hatred, and that this behavior can be rehabilitated without further harm to unrelated innocents. Is that correct?
From where I stand, we do not have a jailer prepared, nor a promise of compliance, nor anything else to stop him coming after the boy again. He has targeted Glitch repeatedly, over the network and in person. This is a pattern of behavior, Doctor, not an isolated incident for which he might feel remorse.
I understand the desire for rehabilitation. [ More softly: ] I understand the desire to think anyone capable of redemption. To hope that any one mistake need not define a person, no matter how horrendous.
But I do not see evidence that Maul intends anything but more bloodshed.
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And that's who we need to find. [The Doctor remarks firmly]
It's a pattern of behavior because of Maul's deep rooted trauma with lighting.
I visited him and I'm still here. Because I'm trying to understand him.
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Perhaps you are still here because you are not his intended victim?