I mean, the whole ‘get your balls back’ is a pretty on the nose reference to emasculation...Hays made an empty threat entirely because he felt emasculated, and he had his bluff called.

I don’t really comment on here any more, but I feel like I should at least make an appearance

I think it’s supposed to represent a kind of emotionless rationalized compassion. Clean Rick intellectually understands what the right thing to do is, but he doesn’t have an emotional connection to anyone; since base Rick obviously views those emotional attachments as weakness. Base Rick only really has an emotional…