[Oh he loves plenty, it's just quite alien as his experiences and what he was designed and trained for since birth are so completely outside normal human experience. It's like child soldiering but with psychological reconstruction.]
Actually I have a number of companions. People I consider friends. People who share my goals, people who love the same man I do who care for me the way I care for them. Even people who were trained to be exactly the same as I am.
Personally I think royalty in general is unnecessary, but what I'm getting at is that detachment is unnecessary, you just need to be realistic about when to step back and when what you want will conflict. It will hurt, but hurting doesn't mean you have to stop.
For an example: to my understanding, you were killed by your lover.
Imagine you had the opportunity to live, but if you choose that option your child is killed. Do you still make the choice to live? Now, consider your child gets to live if you kill the man you love? do you make that choice instead?
If you make no choice, all three of you die.
There is no outcome where no one dies, but every single person takes a moral perspective on which decision is the right one.
None of these choices necessarily mean you have no attachment to the life you select to end, the more times you need to make a choice however, the more callous making a choice will come across.
Of course you can choose to die or let all three die and therefore stop having to make the choice altogether, or you can make the choice as many times as it needs to be made to destroy that which keeps asking you to choose.
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Actually I have a number of companions. People I consider friends. People who share my goals, people who love the same man I do who care for me the way I care for them. Even people who were trained to be exactly the same as I am.
Personally I think royalty in general is unnecessary, but what I'm getting at is that detachment is unnecessary, you just need to be realistic about when to step back and when what you want will conflict. It will hurt, but hurting doesn't mean you have to stop.
For an example: to my understanding, you were killed by your lover.
Imagine you had the opportunity to live, but if you choose that option your child is killed. Do you still make the choice to live? Now, consider your child gets to live if you kill the man you love? do you make that choice instead?
If you make no choice, all three of you die.
There is no outcome where no one dies, but every single person takes a moral perspective on which decision is the right one.
None of these choices necessarily mean you have no attachment to the life you select to end, the more times you need to make a choice however, the more callous making a choice will come across.
Of course you can choose to die or let all three die and therefore stop having to make the choice altogether, or you can make the choice as many times as it needs to be made to destroy that which keeps asking you to choose.