[Demon Lord Etna]

200 years ago if he exposed any of his inner self, he would have been tortured and probably put to public death for not being the same as the ruling class wanted to appear. He would therefore have spent his life denying his true self and likely wound up helping to perpetuate the existing social structure, possibly even as an actively brutal individual out of personal pain. Pick your point in history. You can be made out to be anything if you pick the right time and place.

I meant more along the lines of his statement that people who want to be different than the rest of the world sees as being "normal" must have something wrong with their brain.

I mean no offense either way, and am already regretting having even said that much. I understand what is said and what is meant aren't always going to mesh fluidly.