Gabriels dissonance Condition.

[Matthias Wasser]

Originally Posted by Rocket Man

"The dissonance vanishes once justice has been served," according to Gabriel's writeup. That's open to interpretation, but I would say that a full, sincere repentence counts as justice having been served ... they've effectively inflicted their own punishment! (The same logic is applied in the Angelic Players Guide to Malakim -- the angel must destroy evil, but a Redemption is a much more permanent destruction than simply killing the vessel.)

I'd say that the logic of the cases is fundamentally different; repentance eliminates evil but doesn't punish it. (Excluding the existence of an actual Celestial Plane, all that was in need of correction in Hitler ceased to exist when he died, but his suicide is still colloquially referred to as an escape from justice.) Conversely, the Gabrielite mission is itself cruel but this doesn't make it self-contradictory, as it would if the mission were to eliminate cruelty; it just means that Gabrielites must often punish themselves and each other.