I think I might've interpreted that in an entirely different way. the way I saw that statement was, as long as you have a reaction to what someone says, you still care. you're still ready and able to change and see things in a different way. learn. most people think the opposite of love is hate and the opposite of hate is love. but love and hate are emotions where you really FEEL something and feel it strongly. indifference is when you feel nothing at all. you just don't care. so the destroyer and the exception to your theory/quote/whatever would be indifference? when you're indifferent you're truly dead...

did I make ANY sense? heh. sometimes I just don't know...