[he scoffs. typical. just when he thinks he might be able to give ALASTAIR the benefit of the doubt and assume that maybe they don't operate on the same level as he does, he gets proof like this.]

I'll say it wouldn't be my first instinct. Destruction for the sake of anything's rebirth or salvation leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but if there were no other viable options and more people would suffer otherwise, then I'd be willing to make that call.

[even if he had to make it alone, so no one else had to bear the weight of it.]