How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin?

This is an important question. Its correct answer 

could solve the problem of  how to regard the defence 

of a man claiming complete innocence of accessory 

to a tyrant's penchant for shutting down dissent 

of his rule through the famed barbarity of bloody

extermination. Crimes against humanity were 

committed in gross abundance but he was no tool 

of the regime merely a meek employee whose loyalty 

to the tyrant was simply to ensure that no attempts

at assassination could succeed on his watch.

He offered his estimable services to take advantage 

of the superior entitlements the guards' group claimed. 

The palace guard that itself skilled in atrocities 

raped, looted, terrified the population, slaughtering at 

will. But not he. Innocent of all charges that impede his 

appeal for amnesty as a legitimate refugee. Incidental 

to the fact that in protecting the life of a mass murderer

he was complicit by default, defending the indefensible.