[ Oh, yes, there's quite a lot of hatred there - but no matter his own complicated feelings towards his own complicated progenitors, and no matter his studiously indifferent stance, Byerly still flinches a bit. How...brutal. ]

What a terribly cruel and impractical revolution he was enacting, then. Going after half-decent people who'd come to love him and leaving their son alive to grieve them - one might begin to suspect that his little revolution was simply a cover-up for sadism.