she straightens.

"Yeah.

I guess context and circumstances count, though. But I help when I can."

not everyone or everything must be helped. not at the cost of upsetting the balance of things. bending the rules could very well lead to chaos, and elaine's seen what chaos brings (nothing cool).

however, in this particular case? she figures that genocide and total annihilation do warrant outside intervention. and chaos didn't really seem like the worst case scenario here.