[Hacking into police files and obscuring justice doesn't really seem like that big of a deal to Taako, the only cop he knew before Eddie used to participate in secret illegal races and was in love with a thief so that's all fairly tame. Even the unlawful imprisonment doesn't strike him as that bad, Cisco's logic tracks based on what Taako knows about metahumans even if his own solution would be to just... kill them..... but that's kind of the difference here, between the two of them.
And then Cisco tells him that he tortured someone. Or maybe tortured someone. He hurt someone briefly and feels bad about it, and that's still not really a big deal to Taako, but he gets that it matters to Cisco. It was the same with Clark, pained about having to kill Zod. It's like Magnus understanding why Taako giving up his beauty was so hard. Everyone's got their own battles.]
Is this one of those cases where I tell you all the awful shit I've done to make you feel better or like, would that just make it worse?
[It's a genuine question, because he will own up to a lot of shit, but he isn't sure if that will actually help.]
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And then Cisco tells him that he tortured someone. Or maybe tortured someone. He hurt someone briefly and feels bad about it, and that's still not really a big deal to Taako, but he gets that it matters to Cisco. It was the same with Clark, pained about having to kill Zod. It's like Magnus understanding why Taako giving up his beauty was so hard. Everyone's got their own battles.]
Is this one of those cases where I tell you all the awful shit I've done to make you feel better or like, would that just make it worse?
[It's a genuine question, because he will own up to a lot of shit, but he isn't sure if that will actually help.]