In message 043001c1467a$ef8faed0$0c00a8c0@codex, Una McCormack una@qresearch.org.uk writes
But you're dead right that Cally removes herself throughout this episode. She has a real dilemma, and I think she's very conflicted throughout. She struggles repeatedly to express to Avon that what he is doing is murder, and thus wrong. But, I think she's finding it difficult to resolve the issue, and that part of what's going on is trying to justify to herself the fact that - by her inactivity - she is effectively letting him go through with it. Bearing in mind her own experience of people like Shrinker during S-L-D, I think part of her thinks he's justified. The only internal resolution she can find is removing herself from the action - just like Auron did.
I think that part of her problem is that she can just about countenance Avon seeking personal revenge on the person who killed his girlfriend. She doesn't approve, she won't actively help him, she'll try to talk him out of it, but she won't actually stop him. But the others do not have personal reasons for hating Shrinker himself - they're simply using him as a means to vent their emotions about the system he's part of. That *isn't* justifiable, in her moral system, and it puts even more pressure on her as to whether Avon's behaviour is in any way justifiable.