Counter point- he was not just an orphan, he was launched into space before growing into a conscious entity with any frame of reference (not that his people were all that morally fantastic anyway) and came of age in a lab where he was being studied/tortured for years by a Bajoran scientist before anyone realized he was a sentient being.
He often doesn’t understand humanoids but he doesn’t understand himself either. We only ever see Odo growing in positive ways as he struggles to learn what it means to be a being.
He only cared about rules and order until that got three innocent people executed for a crime they didn’t commit. He learned and grew and never forgave himself for the miscarriage of justice under his authority.
If anyone has an excuse for lacking a moral compass early in life, it’s Odo.
Counter point- he was not just an orphan, he was launched into space before growing into a conscious entity with any frame of reference (not that his people were all that morally fantastic anyway) and came of age in a lab where he was being studied/tortured for years by a Bajoran scientist before anyone realized he was a sentient being.
He often doesn’t understand humanoids but he doesn’t understand himself either. We only ever see Odo growing in positive ways as he struggles to learn what it means to be a being.
He only cared about rules and order until that got three innocent people executed for a crime they didn’t commit. He learned and grew and never forgave himself for the miscarriage of justice under his authority.
If anyone has an excuse for lacking a moral compass early in life, it’s Odo.