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that in the end they are not accountable for by any kind
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of moral calculus, that they resist that
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kind of evaluation.
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Why?
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Because every time the kid shows mercy, he shows mercy to one of his
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own gang and we know what the gang goes on to do.
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Right?
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They simply go on killing more people.
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So, the allegiance that he seems to show with suffering,
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the mercy, is so selective that it can't be called such,
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and it's a kind of trick of McCarthy's narrative to allow us to
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see the suffering of these men in this kind of detail,