Now I think I've managed to confuse myself as well, so I'm not sure I can actually answer your question.
What I think I meant is this. You seem to me to be arguing that Lee's decision was driven by emotion more than by reason. I think I was arguing that he did have a rationale for "breaking his word" (that is, that he could either break his word to Tigh or his oath to uphold the articles of whatever-they-are) -- and that if he had decided that Tigh had set a coup in motion, he would probably feel that had had no choice but to break his word.
As you say, there are two sides to the issue of justification -- whether Lee thinks he was justified in what he did, and whether we think he was justified in what he did. I don't think that the second part of the question is irrelevant; I'm interested in the moral choices characters make.
I'm not sure this response is helpful at all. I think part of the problem is that we're arguing without much data. We saw what Lee did in the episode, but we weren't privy to his thinking, so I think we're both speculating without sufficinet data. Which is fun, but it's not an argument either of us can win.
Re: Justification
What I think I meant is this. You seem to me to be arguing that Lee's decision was driven by emotion more than by reason. I think I was arguing that he did have a rationale for "breaking his word" (that is, that he could either break his word to Tigh or his oath to uphold the articles of whatever-they-are) -- and that if he had decided that Tigh had set a coup in motion, he would probably feel that had had no choice but to break his word.
As you say, there are two sides to the issue of justification -- whether Lee thinks he was justified in what he did, and whether we think he was justified in what he did. I don't think that the second part of the question is irrelevant; I'm interested in the moral choices characters make.
I'm not sure this response is helpful at all. I think part of the problem is that we're arguing without much data. We saw what Lee did in the episode, but we weren't privy to his thinking, so I think we're both speculating without sufficinet data. Which is fun, but it's not an argument either of us can win.