No, it wasn't skate, but it was a fish you could eat in decent conscience, and it was delicious.
Nor is Zandvliet a master of character; as individuals, the Germans make scant impression, aside from a pair of supposedly inseparable twins, played by Emil and Oskar Belton, and Sebastian Louis Hofmannn), the decent conscience of the group.
Far from being large-scale rogues, the two solicitors here are recognisably human: the fundamentally decent Barry has both a conscience and a recondite passion for exotic brands of tea, while Andrew is an easily bullied figure who lost his school girlfriend to Kevin and is quickly suckered into supporting a string of fraudulent claims.
"It should shock the conscience of every decent American that this man is peddling his murder weapon for sale," he added.
In Rathbun's laundry list of complaints against the church, she says she has been "harassed, insulted, surveilled, photographed, videotaped, defamed, and humiliated to such a degree as to shock the conscience of any decent, law-abiding person".
Their mission is to achieve its goal of eliminating substandard housing and making decent, affordable housing a matter of conscience and action in our communities.
Perhaps the wisest people are those who make every effort to establish and maintain the conditions of their happiness: health, wealth, friendship, a clear conscience, and, yes, perhaps a decent single malt in the cupboard.
It called the quartet "cowards" and "political pygmies" while calling on "decent, mainstream Labour MPs" to "vote with their consciences and back David Cameron".
But Ridley's play is far subtler than that insofar as it shows how decent people are driven by desperation to stifle their consciences.
When most of us tune into our conscience it is because we understand that we have crossed the line between decent and not decent acts, that we have hurt or harmed another person.
Perhaps the explanation for the contradictions in his character is that the savage tyrant needed to calm his conscience, to assure himself that he was really a decent human being.
