And many in my position would have.

But that would have punished the innocent alongside the guilty, would have made the honest engineers and analysts pay for the crimes of the executives above them, and would have revealed that my true interest was not in justice at all but in destruction, in seeing the thing with Marcus’s name on it reduced to ash regardless of who else was standing inside it when it fell.

That is what revenge does; it cannot distinguish, it burns indiscriminately, it counts collateral damage as acceptable so long as the target is hit.

Justice is different.