"He still in ya? Or did the train do ya the decency of bringin' ya empty."

Because Yondu can already imagine how shit a deal that is. Being a douchebag yourself and knowing it, doing it to survive, is bad enough. It's barely even livin'! Your whole sense of being is built on this carefully cultivated persona of hate and that's not what your insides want at all.

(Or maybe he's assuming too much, sometimes he sees kinship there when there's none).

But from what he's said so far, he deserves a break. Just a breath of freedom. Less killin'. Less being used by someone else.