how would your morality change if suddenly you found yourself taken away from everything you knew and loved, transported to an unknown place you have zero connection with, and surrounded by people you don't know, can't trust, and actively have bad experiences with immediately?
and then come to find out it's actually been long enough that everyone you knew in your past (with one exception) is long dead - scratch that, your planet is dead! entirely gone - and there's no hope of you ever going back to the way things were.
everything you'd ever done up to that point - meaningless. forgotten. everything you are- who cares? you are a stranger in this world, and everyone is going to treat you that way.
i know i'd certainly struggle.
and holy fuck i don't think karmor gets enough credit for being as accepting as he has been lmao. first impressions with the crew? hipswitch almost gives him up for a bounty. he's simultaneously threatened and talked down to by albus on a nigh-constant basis. let's not even get into the whole needle situation because damn, doc would not get a second chance with me if i'd been in that room. oh, it's allergy season?? what a wild excuse please try harder to keep your weirdo in line, thanks /j /nsrs
why should karmor care about the consequences of his actions when he has no emotional ties to anything anymore? why should he try to be 'good' when everything else is trying to kill him? if he's out there taking the moral high ground amongst bounty hunters and mad scientists and criminals, then isn't he just giving everyone else an easy target?
in a world where no one knows who you are, should you still try to be good?
it's a super interesting question to me. and i think - based on what we've heard, karmor is still trying to be good. he cares. he gets albus free drinks at the bar (plus karmor listens to his advice, trains, and does what he can to help out and pull his weight), he held hipswitch's hand when he needed the emotional support, he's opening up to doc, and even though he's certainly wary of attila (rightfully so) he hasn't written him off yet! he saved his life!
yes, karmor fucks up from time to time (who doesn't) and in a time and place so unfamiliar, who can blame him? he's learning this world at the same rate we the audience are. 'course he's going to do some dumb shit, try out the new powers, see what rules he can bend before breaking them, yada yada. (he is also likely grieving the loss of an entire planet and his previous life on it so i think we can give him some emotional wiggle room lmao)
but i think he's trying to be good where he can be. and right now, i think that's enough.
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