Why should such extenuating circumstances matter, save only to assure our number here that I am not a threat to them?

[Because it made no difference in Viktor's head--hecwas only trying to help, and yet his idea of 'help' was poisoned without him even realizing. What did that matter, when the end result was uncountable lives worse than ended?]

My past or current state ofmund does not change what has been done, and there must be someone guilty of the damage caused and lives ended.