Don't you need to be strong to truly be compassionate? It takes guts to be a good person and live it. And if Nightwing becomes all about the asskicking, just taking criminals out for some hard dead purpose, aren't you losing the human touch that reminds you of the innocents you're taking the scum off the street to protect?

::Crawford would be laughing right now, but Crawford is also a man utterly in denial about his own "softer" emotions, few though they may be, and that's one reason why Schu isn't his live-in partner anymore.::

If he's half of everything our Crane is, I can understand your disquiet.

I think stomping out the seeds and ripping out the roots before things grow more is a great idea.