"I read my own file," which he feels like counts for more, but maybe actually counts for less.
But okay. He'll try to help her out. Maybe. A little.
"It depends. Graduating doesn't mean you never kill or make mistakes. It doesn't mean you apologize for what you did."
He sighs, slowly. "I always thought of it as fixing something inside yourself that was broken. Changing the way you dealt with the world. Everyone goes through shit. But not everyone is an inmate. So I thought it had to be more about intent."
He doesn't know if he still believes that - doesn't know if he believes it about himself, most of all - but it has to be right in some cases, at least. He still thinks that's what did it for T'Pol. "One of my inmates, T'Pol. Her people had been enslaved. She wanted to resort to genocide to fix it. Two wrongs don't make a right. That kind of thing."
He adds, "When she did graduate, I went to help her. We did kill a lot of people. But - even in a war, not everyone on the opposing side is your enemy."
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But okay. He'll try to help her out. Maybe. A little.
"It depends. Graduating doesn't mean you never kill or make mistakes. It doesn't mean you apologize for what you did."
He sighs, slowly. "I always thought of it as fixing something inside yourself that was broken. Changing the way you dealt with the world. Everyone goes through shit. But not everyone is an inmate. So I thought it had to be more about intent."
He doesn't know if he still believes that - doesn't know if he believes it about himself, most of all - but it has to be right in some cases, at least. He still thinks that's what did it for T'Pol. "One of my inmates, T'Pol. Her people had been enslaved. She wanted to resort to genocide to fix it. Two wrongs don't make a right. That kind of thing."
He adds, "When she did graduate, I went to help her. We did kill a lot of people. But - even in a war, not everyone on the opposing side is your enemy."