Skulduggery doesn't want to be the guy who points out the obvious, but... oh, who are we kidding. Skulduggery loves to point out the obvious, especially when he can make it seem like he came up with it himself.

"You're not the only person aboard whose opposition to murder is solely pragmatic. And I doubt Malcolm is going to hold a few non-permanent, necessary deaths against you."

But this is really Max's purview. He is, after all, more morally ambivalent than Skulduggery is. He can handle the pep talk.