"It might do him some good," Jim said quietly. "I don't know if he would go free. It would depend, largely, on him. On his progress, and on his willingness to change. There is the complication of Romulus not being part of the Federation--we technically have no jurisdiction over him, and his incursion into Federation space, even aside from his crimes, is grounds for an interstellar incident. It's delicate.
"But I am not the one to dictate whether there is value in a man who has committed genocide. The most vile man I have ever known was also the most brilliant actor. The most destructively insane, one of the greatest tacticians of our history. I am not a psychologist. Nor a judge. But even knowing what they did... even wanting, in the former case, to take my own revenge, I could not. Knowing that the worst crimes can begin with one man thinking he has the right to dictate whether another lives."
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Date: 2009-11-23 03:56 pm (UTC)"But I am not the one to dictate whether there is value in a man who has committed genocide. The most vile man I have ever known was also the most brilliant actor. The most destructively insane, one of the greatest tacticians of our history. I am not a psychologist. Nor a judge. But even knowing what they did... even wanting, in the former case, to take my own revenge, I could not. Knowing that the worst crimes can begin with one man thinking he has the right to dictate whether another lives."