I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.
The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.