No one is arguing that Ran'jit is in the right, or that his actions were reasonable - and certainly not noble or honorable. He was a broken man, beaten down by fighting an unwinnable war. He could have seen any number of hope spots, times that it seemed like the resistance was making progress against the Sin Eaters, only to have it all fall apart. Minfillia was their best weapon, and they fielded her time and again, and each time her life bought time, and nothing more. Defeat was inevitable. Hope was impossible. Resistance was nothing more than self-torture.

Ran'jit had no reason to expect that some miraculous hero would arise capable of doing the impossible - and when one DID, he'd already fully partaken of Vauthry's kool-aid. In between childish tantrums, Vauthry DID have some seemingly compelling arguments regarding the hopelessness of it all - that even through some miraculous victory against the Sin Eaters, the few remaining humans would destroy themselves fighting over the few scraps of the world that remained. It's a pretty cup-half-empty view of humanity, but for someone looking for any excuse to finally stop fighting, the words would have been honeyed, indeed.

Resistance is too painful. Let us rest, and enjoy what little time we have left. Hope will always be crushed, so abandon it. After a century of fighting, this is what Ran'jit was reduced to. There are other, better men who have endured as much and more - the Crystal Exarch being a stellar example, who never lost hope in spite of losing everything and having fought just as long if not longer - but I feel that Ran'jit is a man to be pitied, not hated.