I think people incorrectly treat that statement, "the end justifies the means" as a black and white statement. Its truthfulness depends entirely on the scale, effects, moral implications and a billion other factors pertaining to the ends and the means.

In other words, sometimes the ends justifies the means and sometimes not, because the world is not black and white, it's made up entirely of grey zones. I think that, in this situation, the ends do justify the means, although saying that is still oversimplifying it.

With that, I agree with you. Everything can be found in shades of grey.
(And a Hell of a lot more than fifty. It doesn't take a telepath to know what you're thinking.)

But it also knows restraint.

dear diary,

today i found some reasonable people on the internet

I believe in both, if that's possible.

Same here.

It is. Good on you.

dear diary,

today i found some reasonable people on the internet