"I don't.... think so? There's a difference between selling knives, which someone could then on their own go use to stab an innocent person for profit, and stabbing innocent people for your own gain yourself."

"I don't.... think so? There's a difference between selling knives, which someone could then on their own go use to stab an innocent person for profit, and stabbing innocent people for your own gain yourself. And I think it is - profoundly not in the nature of Abadar - to treat any being as a paving stone rather than an agent that can be traded with in its own right."