[Jasper sighs and drops his calm expression a moment; forward about sharing the kind of man he is. His face is a mixture of skepticism and questions that speaks to a need to challenge.

An intellectual need to argue with someone.]

On the contrary, why accept hardship when there are reasonable alternatives? One can learn from their mistakes without it costing a limb.

[And a man like himself simply cannot accept hardship. He needs to please someone with exacting standards that match his own.]