"I'm saying that if you take a chain of events back a few too many steps, you can no longer use it as a rationale for doing things. You can't say what would have happened because you can always find a counter that it might not have. And is it different? Do we have a sliding scale for cruelty that has a little line marked on it where suddenly it becomes okay? Because that would be handy."

But then she stops. "Project? What project?"