User blog comment:DancePowderer/What's the Deal with Cactus?/@comment-4899461-20130325153318/@comment-4899461-20130325165505

Wait, you're saying that seeing a friend from his childhood that was so close that they became brothers would make Luffy distraught? It's basic human emotion that he should be happy to see a family member alive. If Luffy meets Sabo and is more concerned over some words Ace told him years ago, then something is deeply wrong with his character.

And what Luffy learned from Sabo's death is that he needs to be the freest person on the seas. From all the people that Luffy's encountered on his adventures, it should be obvious to him that that objective is still correct, even if the event that brought it on wasn't "true"