Countless times that afternoon, Hackworth had been overcome by shame, and 
as many times he had fought it off with rationalization: What was so bad about 
what he was doing? He was not selling any of the new technologies that Lord 
Finkle-McGraw had paid Bespoke to develop. He was not profiting directly. He 
was just trying to secure a better place in the world for his descendants, 
which was every father's responsibility.