"They deserve it. Sometimes they deserve more. And don't ask me who am I to judge — there is no higher power, there's only what we can do for each other. I'll never feel guilty about killing these assholes. What I'm concerned about are the consequences I don't calculate right, or don't foresee at all. Kill a guy, maybe that leads to someone else's death, someone who didn't deserve it. Maybe it puts someone in deep shit. Whatever I do, it could change a lot of things, and I can't know about all of them. That I'll feel guilty about. But I'm not gonna let these shitbags roam free to rape and kill. And here we just can't afford to do anything else."
Now he leans in just a little, barely more than a slight shift in his posture, the incline of his head. His voice doesn't get any lower than it was already, to keep their conversation between them; as calm as he's stayed, Kate has stirred up some intense feelings about the situation, and now he speaks with little awareness for their surroundings, just him to her.
"It's gonna be like that here. There'll be reprisals for what we do, they will crack down on innocent people when we hit them. And I'll feel guilt for that. I'll remember every name. But it can't continue like this, it's got to change."
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"They deserve it. Sometimes they deserve more. And don't ask me who am I to judge — there is no higher power, there's only what we can do for each other. I'll never feel guilty about killing these assholes. What I'm concerned about are the consequences I don't calculate right, or don't foresee at all. Kill a guy, maybe that leads to someone else's death, someone who didn't deserve it. Maybe it puts someone in deep shit. Whatever I do, it could change a lot of things, and I can't know about all of them. That I'll feel guilty about. But I'm not gonna let these shitbags roam free to rape and kill. And here we just can't afford to do anything else."
Now he leans in just a little, barely more than a slight shift in his posture, the incline of his head. His voice doesn't get any lower than it was already, to keep their conversation between them; as calm as he's stayed, Kate has stirred up some intense feelings about the situation, and now he speaks with little awareness for their surroundings, just him to her.
"It's gonna be like that here. There'll be reprisals for what we do, they will crack down on innocent people when we hit them. And I'll feel guilt for that. I'll remember every name. But it can't continue like this, it's got to change."