[Geir goes completely silent for at least two full minutes, eyes slitted, keen memory poring over every aspect of their conversation so far. finally he ventures a summary:]

So what you're saying is, if you're a broken person, you can doubt that you're a real one, 'cause you have no hope that you'll do anything but "keep hurting people" even if you regret it. But just hurting people and regretting it doesn't count you out, as long as there's still hope you can improve.

That's still sheep's piss, Dirk. Doesn't that assume that the point of being a person is to not hurt people? I know that's not true.