[No, he isn't.]

Yes... I know you feel s-strongly negatively about them. And... I do not find your reasoning f-faulty, even if... the circumstances you describe are much different from m-many of the ones I have seen...

But this... this is s-something aside from even that. This was... forced upon you...

[In other words, it wouldn't really have mattered what it was - the sheer fact it was being forced on Don is what makes it bad.]