Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.