Here was the difference between the two of them: when Morty assumed awareness, he could only be crushed, whether he rebelled, or surrendered. Rick was different. He was perpetually aware and able to decide the fate of the cosmos. So why did that knowledge make him drink so as not to think? Not to think that perhaps he too, after all, was helpless in the face of that awareness.
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