[thesz]

> maybe the whole project should have been scrapped at the planning phase.

This is an argument made by one of the Dostoevsky characters, a famous "tear of a child" argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoevsky

"Their first child, Sofya, had been conceived in Baden-Baden, and was born in Geneva on 5 March 1868. The baby died of pneumonia three months later, and Anna recalled how Dostoevsky "wept and sobbed like a woman in despair"."

So Dostoevsky suffered the pain of losing a child.

Despite that, an argument about "tear of child" was put into antagonist's mouth.