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This is the Midnighter who, in the very first AUTHORITY story arc, uses the Carrier to ram a swath straight to the heart of a city, a gleeful smile plastered on his face, while saying something along the lines of "I love my job"? A city that, presumably like any other city, was populated with its fair share of children?

Yeah, I don't see the big discrepancy here. Anyone capable of killing that many children for the sake of some perceived greater good is capable of killing one child for the sake of it. If anything, I appreciate that this writer seems to be actually acknowledging that aspect of the character instead of simply eliding it for the sake of making him more palatable to the audience. (The latter method being a common trick for writers who want to have their morally ambiguous cake and eat it too. "Oh, he's a bastard, but let's conveniently never have him being so to characters the audience actually cares about.")