Superboy would steady his tone. "You cannot judge him for a mistake we would all make in his shoes. I left the planet so that I would not bring about the end of this world. I fought countless beings, slaughtered them and cut them down for freedom. I have seen the good in his heart again, and it fills me with joy to have my friend at my side again. You judge him of lust, yet he did not want for power, not flesh. He wanted the touch of his love, something neither of us will feel again. You judge him of wrath, which he is guilty, and that which kept him alive and fighting. Greed, yet another name for his lust of power. He stole it from them, because he could not fill the hole in his heart. Envy. He is envious of death's embrace as it clutches his fears and hopes, holding what he cherished most out of his grasp."

"If he is to be judged for feeling love, and it's poison on the soul, then should I not be judged as well?"