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No you did not read my question properly.
nothing changes in Jamie's motivations for actions or how he acts upon them.
We all accept he will kill to protect the secret of him and his sisters incestuous sex and some say that is ok or understandable or not a clear bad or evil since he is protecting his family from a certain death after
So if that is his moral framework and you accept it then simply adding quantity DOES NOT change anything.
If Jamie and Cersei are not careful lovers and get caught out often and Jamie simply follows the above moral framework he is doing nothing different than he did the first time. It is not OK if only one or two times but wrong in 3+.
If it is the number that determines someone's moral judgement of the act then they do not understand how moral's or logic work.
Fun conversation...
and, here's the kicker - I only accept the underlined under certain conditions - one of those conditions is rarity. All I have to do is add that caveat, and this line of reasoning goes up in smoke. And quantity always matters. There is a moral difference between killing one boy and massacring an entire kingdom, for example.
I accept he will kill to protect the secret of him and his sisters incestuous sex, so long as he takes precautions to ensure killing is a last resort (which he did, by hiding in a high tower). It is understandable or not a clear bad or evil since he is protecting his family from a certain death after, and is not doing this with malice in his heart or with the intention of having to kill to protect his secret.
In another example, I could accept a person killing someone in self defense once, but if it becomes an ongoing trend I have to start asking what the hell is going on that this person is continually seeking out situations where they have to kill someone to protect themselves.
And for the record Jamie never did kill anyone to protect his secret with his sister.