I don't expect to be able to change his mind on anything, and I think that it would be a waste of time to try. Listening and understanding is the most that can be done at this point; if he changes his mind for whatever reason, it will be on his own terms.

[He pauses for a moment, fussing with something under one of his gloves in a distracted, idle sort of way before he seems to realize and sets his hands back down.]

As it is, I neither hate nor resent him; I don't hate or resent most people.