No apology is necessary, Diarmuid. To invite comparison is the primary point of this.

To continue, however... that was when he adopted me and took me on as an apprentice. He taught both myself and his younger daughter, Franziska, all that he knew. However, in addition to the fact that this included skewed philosophies and methods that were morally questionable or worse, he also encouraged the worst facets of myself and subtly stoked my fears and my pain. At the time, I mistook this for mere extensions of his strictness and his belief in ruthless, unforgiving treatment of criminals and all who would take their side.

Ten years later, I returned to my previous home district ready to crush every defendant and defense lawyer who crossed my path.