Secraficing 5 people you don't care to save one you actually love makes all the sense to me. And I would, propably do the same. You know, then I was a child I barely could understand why some characters in the movie skrew up everything for the sake of one person they love. Later then I grow up, I realised that... I would prolly do the same. Even knowing it's not right. And I doubt that anyone being human would do anything else. Of course this is very contraversial subject but..
You know then you really imagine your own kin dying out of starvation (Crete) and seeing your neighbours shipping luxury foods (cambrige) doesn't it fill your heart with feeling of unjustice and hatred? Pretty much same concept of oppressed worker who is unjustly underpaid for all the money he makes to tyrant corporations.
(I, in no way, justify violant approuch to this matter be it taking by force, be it revolutions by slaughering entire class of people who refuse to give up)
But anyway. Yes I understood what you want to say. But clearing the question with sairs doesn't clear the question with ID. Alltough I really enjoyed this little discurse which proves that same more sensetive subjects can be discussed in civil manner : )
Alltough I guess we could go on and on.. for example the coalition sabotaging Hispania. Which actually caused birth of such factions as Outcasts and Corsairs to begin with. Irony...