It was? But I think there's a moral argument for the choice he makes, here.
My moral squick with what Christian does is on a personal level, not a big, worldly level. On a utilitarian, whole-world level . . . yes, I definitely concede your point. But on a personal level? I think that is possibly the most horrific thing he has done in the entire span of the series. He made a conscious decision to make someone else a victim in order to free himself . . . and after (a) he'd been put in place of the victim, so he knew exactly how it felt, and (b) after the Carver had killed somebody, so there was a definite chance that someone was going to be murdered as consequence of his actions. Christian sat down and thought this out, and he made a plan, a conscious decision to do this! That is what bothers me about it; that is what I find monstrous, and that is the kind of thing that makes it so I can never reconcile Christian with being anywhere near as moral as Sean. Sean's crime was worrying about trusting a man who fed someone else to a rapist and murderer; Christian was a man who fed someone to a rapist and murderer. That's just how I see it.
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Re: Sean McNamara
It was? But I think there's a moral argument for the choice he makes, here.
My moral squick with what Christian does is on a personal level, not a big, worldly level. On a utilitarian, whole-world level . . . yes, I definitely concede your point. But on a personal level? I think that is possibly the most horrific thing he has done in the entire span of the series. He made a conscious decision to make someone else a victim in order to free himself . . . and after (a) he'd been put in place of the victim, so he knew exactly how it felt, and (b) after the Carver had killed somebody, so there was a definite chance that someone was going to be murdered as consequence of his actions. Christian sat down and thought this out, and he made a plan, a conscious decision to do this! That is what bothers me about it; that is what I find monstrous, and that is the kind of thing that makes it so I can never reconcile Christian with being anywhere near as moral as Sean. Sean's crime was worrying about trusting a man who fed someone else to a rapist and murderer; Christian was a man who fed someone to a rapist and murderer. That's just how I see it.