I don't know if that's as much a measure of his conviction as much as it's a measure of stubbornness, which is not the same thing.

[ gen seemed fully prepared to let john kill him rather than simply give in or back down or seem even a little sorry. on some level, that's respectable, but also, it's infuriating. ]

There's nothing you'd be willing to spend a few days in jail to avoid?

[ that question isn't even strictly relevant to this conversation, but he can't imagine liem wants to sit here and speculate about gen the entire time anyway. ]