But it only works because it knows its premise is objectively horrifying and its whole POV is from the viewpoint of the one man who comes through the portal and gets euthanized at the end despite constantly trying to be a good guy, because he's infected
It's more the story's heavyhanded framing that rehabilitation is impossible (even though, in-universe, they've been through an enormous trauma that really should be the main thing their actions are judged by) and imprisonment too dangerous to risk
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And the similarly heavyhanded moment of truth where the narrator siding with his captain in a moment of crisis (again, despite the aforementioned overwhelming trauma) is proof the sickness is in his blood
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