She’d made it clear that Things Would Be Done Properly. The problem came in defining the term Properly. - Lois McMaster Bujold

I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.

Miles, when he was contemplating this technology for my future grandchildren, wanted to start twelve at once and do them all in one efficient batch. Like growing his own platoon, I gather. I offered to take turns with Ekaterin holding his head under water till he had a better idea, but as it turned out, she didn't need my help. Wonderful girl, my daughter-in-law. I still don't know what he did to deserve her.

stupidity can be as bad as malice