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Originally Posted by issybird;3812647The parallel irony just occurred to me in regard to Toby. I did snicker at the name "Ethical Outcomes" as it clearly implies unethical means, but that also applies to Toby. I think that was very well done by le Carré; I was just slow on the uptake. That's the big question; when [I
do[/I] the ends justify the means? We root for Toby and against Crispin, but Crispin & Co. have the opposite take..
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Yes, an example of that occurs when Toby met with Crispin at his office. Toby raised the woman and child’s death as unacceptable collateral damage. Crispin agrees it’s a tragedy. He then turns the moral tables by talking about the greater scale of human suffering when the insurgents unleash their rockets and heavy fire. It’s hard to argue against his point.