Quote Originally Posted by redheadturk View Post
Correction. It wasn't because he "didn't want to handle them." It was because the whole thing came with corruption due to the knowledge that Athena had planted. The tearing away of his emotions was a side effect, not the main idea.
Wasn't it more like he also had those thoughts of doing unethical experiments but would never act on them but after getting to know her soul in that way he feared that the temptation would be too great so he cut that part out of him. Sounds like not handling your emotions to me.