Nothing can be placed on such a black and white level. I know little of your home, but I have learned enough to know that you were fed through a school to drill these things into you from a young age. You have learned differently for yourself, now. That is far more important than the corrupt intentions of a misinformed child.

[Her wording strikes him... quite personally, though.]

When something you used to call a person begins acting like a monster, there is only so much you can stand until you begin to believe that they must be one. There reaches a certain point where there is very little left to salvage, where any resemblance disappears. Rejecting them becomes the easiest option.