Exactly.

[He agrees, reshelving the book on organization without looking where he's sliding it, because he's watching him back.]

And that's just it. I did what I had to do. I'm not sorry I did it. Only, it seems like the things I did in the service of my greater good were a little too objectively awful for my scales to balance out, in the end. But as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really change a thing.