That becomes steadily clearer to me as time goes by.
of COURSE ippolit’s ‘explanation’ becomes more clearly noble to our Prince in time. he’s gradually falling to earth after all, until he crashes awfully and goes back to the sickly ‘idiot’ he was before we even met him.
as another point though, i do know that myshkin is very much compassionate and even empathetic to suffering, and perhaps even more so to ippolit’s sufferings — they aare parallels and incredibly similar, after all.
