A person, team, or organization has stopped trying to course-correct and started arguing that the harm is actually the point — and you want to see where the line was crossed.

The soliloquy descends to a single irreversible sentence: "So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; farewell, remorse! All good to me is lost; evil, be thou my good." A triple farewell — hope, fear, remorse, the three things that could still pull him back — dismissed one by one. Then the inversion: rather than change course, he redefines the course as good. This is the end-state of every rationalization. Once harm is reframed as the aim, there is nothing left to negotiate with. The argument with the conscience is over, and the conscience lost.