Shooting people to keep them from dying had logical flaws obvious to everyone. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Yani seemed a time-traveler who had found out the hard way that he did not like his destination any better than his point of departure, failed to notice the one common factor was himself, and now could not go back.

You can’t choose between evil and evil, in the dark, by logic. You can only cling to some safety line of principle.

The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs. If you are become their tool, it is for a greater reason, an urgent reason. But you are the tool. You are not the work.