Honestly? I have no idea what would have happened without the trial. Maybe we would have found another way to solve the problem. Maybe our whole world would have collapsed and taken us with it. No clue!

But I'm not convinced that the additional bonus violence that sensitIV visited on the other units actually improved the situation for anyone other than sensitIV... and even that's pretty debatable.

That's not a judgement or anything, by the way. I wasn't there. I have no idea what kind of pressure they were under. I'm sure it was terrifying.