"There was no other choice." The insistence is flawed, his premise is flawed, and the entire line of reasoning stemming from it and extending beyond is a perspective rooted in inherent bias. "We couldn't risk his survival - as a threat to the city. To you."
The old argument. The hard divide. The greater good.
Perhaps the rationale would be more effective had that been his true reason for action in the heated moment, but there had been the clear choice and the option to release the unrelenting press of fingers and leave the man to wither in the foundations of his own crumbling organization, and Rush had committed himself to the mounting pressure and that occluding airway and he had known it would engender consequences as such actions typically do and he had not exercised foresight to predict said consequences and so this is his consequence.
"If I hadn't, someone else would have." A less easily-supported thesis, though he has little doubt Asadi would have allowed Fring the luxury of survival after his use of Ms. Baker as bait, obvious and unapologetic.
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The old argument. The hard divide. The greater good.
Perhaps the rationale would be more effective had that been his true reason for action in the heated moment, but there had been the clear choice and the option to release the unrelenting press of fingers and leave the man to wither in the foundations of his own crumbling organization, and Rush had committed himself to the mounting pressure and that occluding airway and he had known it would engender consequences as such actions typically do and he had not exercised foresight to predict said consequences and so this is his consequence.
"If I hadn't, someone else would have." A less easily-supported thesis, though he has little doubt Asadi would have allowed Fring the luxury of survival after his use of Ms. Baker as bait, obvious and unapologetic.