He does not get any basic point.

The trillions wasted on the eaters and trillions more wasted on anti terrorism, criminal justice etc would have certainly cured cancer, solved global warming, created humane birth control.


Solved all of the world's problems.

Scum cost money, cost lives, either directly or indirectly.

Think is of what Tal has cost his parents in terms of dollars / suffering.

Tal is too focused on the 40 year old murder of someone he never really knew to see past his big nose.