"Everyone should make the choice for themselves. And then some are blind fools who let others tell them what to think, what's to be feared, without doing any thinking because thinking is difficult."

He's a little bitter about this. More than a little, and it's not something that he wants to dwell on when Justice is already tense about the upcoming ritual. To lose control now, when they may be on the eve of sending the spirit home and freeing Anders, would be... he wouldn't have words for how awful it would be.

"Yes, obviously, dragons should be feared. They've sharp pointy bits and like to eat people. But mages are people. Rifters are people, and so on. Reacting in fear is wasted everything. Potential, time, energy, life..."