He lifts his eyebrows as if to say 'surprise, I'm not actually an idiot' but doesn't address that part at all.

Good job on coming back to yourself, at least in vocal tone, though.

"No, it's not. The motive is for you to be given an opportunity to explain to me that you're a bad person because you sold your soul to the devil and do bad things, and to control my perception of you. We're not doing that - and we sure as shit aren't doing it using my actions with free will to yours without it."

He will argue with you. Something about situations going south and not being able to ignore them. Light him on fire, okay, but he's not handing his actions over as a tool for self-flagellation.