I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.
“Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.”
“That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.”