It is why, in the video, he did not tell me to punish them.

He told me to use my clear head, and to act only from necessity, and — though he did not say it in so many words — to spend the bulk of my one life not on them, but on me.

The suspensions and the audit and the civil claims, all of that was necessary, and I did it, precisely and without malice, and then I was finished with it.

I did not linger.

I did not savor.

I did the necessary cold thing, then I turned, deliberately, all the way around, and walked toward the fire.