"You don't think there is something in our nature to make us decide to take that path? Palpatine was no doubt capable even as a child of making that choice." Hux had no regrets about the choice he had made when he was young.

Perhaps it may not have been much of a choice but he had decided to be ambitious and to serve the tradition of the Empire beyond what his father had commanded. "There has to be something in his nature and in mind that makes the Dark Side resonate through us."