by the end of his training into the msf , kiel had come to several conclusions about the kind of man he wanted to be : he had decided that he would never forsake anyone unimportant , that he really wanted to make an effort to give people the benefit of the doubt , if it seemed right to do so ; he had realized that nature gave its gifts indiscriminately , independent of social position , and that even the most intelligent and educated in the galaxy could be hard-hearted and without a moral or social conscience .