I concur.
Also the moral dilemmas that are raised, as far as I have read, are as absurd as suddenly saying that they are raping cows to get milk or enslaving bees to get honey.
Suffice it as an example the discussion that in reality the heroes are the bad guys for breaking, by preemptively...
It's strange how the detective, and seemingly Ku Klux Klan member, wants to kill an apparently white man only because his mother was married to a black man, but has no problem working for a dark skinned Catholic (in case this KKK was of the Anti-Catholicism kind).