Does the power to destroy something give you absolute control over it?

[Stephen]

That's sort of what Paul Atredes, the protagonist in Dune, says and it appears to have influenced Caine's thinking in this book.

Of course, my feeling is that some people just have a talent for destruction, or in Drake's case, a taste for it.

[ℂᖺαᖇᒪἷ℮ ⊰1017 &Tardis⊱]

I don't think it should, but unfortunately sometimes human nature causes it.