"Because how you think about people and what you do in response to them doesn't have to match. I thought the clones down there deserved to be free, and that the CLF was trying their best in a rough situation. I still went after Guy and Moses and Bilbo when they disappeared from the fight to make sure they didn't do anything stupid. Which Guy was trying to do by programming his own clones because he was a hypocrite, and me and the other people that found them stopped them. I gave Guy a chance to step down though, rather than get his face pounded in--and he did. Because people are capable of the right thing."

It was hard to explain the dichotomy.

"What it comes down to is my ideas about human nature don't dictate my actions completely. I don't treat every single fight or situation the same, because the people in them could be good, bad, or somewhere in between. The right thing to do is never exactly the same. And just because most people are capable of being good or at least harmless doesn't mean that some people aren't above faking being good to take a cheap shot."

Words often failed him and they were right now.

"People are complex, so how you deal with them has to be complex, too. You go too simple and either you write off everyone when some are actually worth saving, or you open yourself up to a world of hurt when maybe some are actually pretty rotten."

It'd taken him a lifetime to start to understand shades of gray, but he was learning.