Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38.128.134.222-20151108021229/@comment-410526-20151121200109

It's not lethal, though. So I imagine he could justify it to himself by saying he had to just hurt some people to save all the people. Not using the device might have resulted in actual deaths, otherwise.

Not that I agree with this, but it would probably be Ironwood's line of reasoning.