I would not dare say this in the walls of your home, and to even say so on your grounds feels as if it is a violation of hospitality, but in truth, I think that pragmatism is justification for far too many things. Or at least, that seems to be what I have observed.

[He can't say anything ruder or blunter, but there is to be a pragmatic person, and there is the loss of humanity entirely. The latter seems to be a risk that magi run, and one that doesn't give them as much pause as they should.]

Your brother and yourself have ethics behind you. I do not know how true that is elsewhere.