[Hardly surprising. He's all too aware of what this sort of thing can do to people. He's seen it many, many times with fresh meat Reapers on their first Erasure. The thought that they're doing something horrible. That they had chosen wrong in joining the "bad guys".]

If you didn't do it, someone else surely would have. [He hardly sounds fazed by it all. In fact, he's probably standing back here inspecting his nails.]

Only they are the ones capable of determining whether or not their lives are truly worth fighting for. We simply give the means to an end.