[Oh, well. Kimblee's not the only one amused, now, and he's certainly caught her interest; she's got a bit of a Socratic penchant to her, asking questions to provoke thought, but it's less often than you might expect that she gets a legitimate taker to that bait.]

I wouldn't say it's creating a false dichotomy so much as it is identifying the endpoints of a spectrum — which would make that fine line less of a division and more of a threshold between the two extremes. Where that threshold falls, though, seems to be something that every trainer needs to identify for herself.

[She's not particularly enamored with the idea of guns at all, even as a metaphor, but just because she's not fond of the analogy it comes through doesn't mean she misses the point he's making.]

And I'd say the damage incurred is a separate but still related issue, really. The damage may not be permanent, but it's fairly Machiavellian to suggest that having the ability to restore them to perfect health justifies whatever pain and suffering they're put through along the way.