Because now death is cheap and still not at all traumatic for anyone involved? [She offers him something of an arch look, not irritated at him, but rather at the circumstances.] And calling blindness or a missing limb a 'penalty' as though this were some kind of game-

[Adele cuts herself off, takes a deep breath and releases it. Nothing to be done. She cannot change this. Accept. She manages after awhile.] I would rather not see anyone struck blind, but it is better than remaining dead.