User blog comment:DancePowderer/Such a Childhood/@comment-77.49.168.190-20131025130841/@comment-1595565-20131025150115

While all your points are well-made, we've never actually seen young celestial dragon children. I was applying some sociological notions to Doflamingo's behavior based on some studies I had read about how children of different social classes behave and how they're expected to behave. True, I was basing it a bit off of Sabo, Stelly, and Ahho Zurako's interactions with their parents, but can you blame me? That's the closest thing I had to work with. One thing I was really using from the studies I mentioned had to do with retention of innocence and reaction to problems. Wealthy, sheltered kids tend to be more innocent and unexposed to ideas like death and human suffering, to use some extreme examples. I have thought about the idea of a social hierarchy within the celestial dragons, as indeed they do exist in the real world, but not as overtly as you are suggesting.