[He sees her sense of outrage clearly, and it gives him pause for a second. His voice gets almost quieter as she gets more strident.]

Are they all implicated in that? They are all associated, but only the people who did such a thing should be considered guilty of it, isn't it so? What they did, if I recall correctly, was to restore powers from our original universes to the affected ones, after they were asked or at least provoked to do so, in full knowledge that this would cause a gruesome fate, though they had not convinced those people that this would happen.

... It's a lonely road we travel if we go condemning everyone who's ever brought another harm, even if we say only those who did so intentionally.