@kims @rtushnet
Agreed, it’s certainly reasonable to speculate that he wouldn’t have evolved very far. I do think Rebecca’s point stands, for exactly the reason Kim states in her first sentence: there’s a difference between Crow fully expecting Thomas to stay bitter forever and Crow feeling like he •owns• Thomas.
When the latter is present, there simply can be no trust in Thomas’s judicial integrity, regardless of his actual beliefs and how they might hypothetically have evolved.