"Our adversaries have Splendour 40 now. Lovely."
"I'd say that doesn't reveal a defect of your present Lawfulness, it reflects - something that might forcibly mind-control you away from whatever coherence you currently have between past and future selves? It's not something you can fix by an act of will, maybe there's something you could do if you're already a sixth-rank Keeper but you're not. So the thing you do which is Not That is in fact to make sure you get involuntarily dragged over the devil afterwards."
"Though there'd be ethical questions there, about whether the new person who's created as a result of talking to the 40-Splendour Brainwasher has their own right to live the way they now desire, that is violated if a devil brainwashes you back into existence again. Some out of dath ilan would say that person is being wronged by you, because you set things up for them to be made so, and then unmade. Yet many even of those would also say, well, if you gotta do it at all, that's still the way to do it, sorry."