It's fascinating to watch Harvey's friends switch for self preservation. Check and balance doesn't rely on the nobility of man but the desire to be the last person standing.
"Where was it that I read about a man condemned to death saying or thinking, an hour before his death, that if he had to live somewhere high up on a cliffside, on a ledge so narrow that there was room only for his two feet - and with the abyss, the ocean, eternal darkness, ...
eternal solitude, eternal storm all around him - and had to stay like that, on a square foot of space, an entire lifetime, a thousand years, an eternity - it would be better to live so than die right now! Only to live, to live, to live! To live, no matter how - only to live! ...
How true! Lord, how true! Man is a scoundrel! And he's a scoundrel who calls him a scoundrel for that."
