"Well. That would work on most people, probably. Though assassins... there's more to them than being morally bereft. They kill because they like it, but they don't do it for fun like, say, my father. They get into the business because they like holding the power of life and death, but they'll only do it for money. It's all distasteful and... lacking in any interesting motivation at all. It's a business transaction," he mused, finishing up his apple and setting it down. "They feel nothing about their targets. They may as well be inanimate objects."