History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
What you feel and how you react to something is always up to you. There may be a "normal" or a common way to react to different things. But that's mostly just all it is.
A man of truth must also be a man of care.
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.