"So self defense doesn't qualify for a reason in your book?" Leonidas was even more intrigued than annoyed now. "Most of the Mentors here, that's what they use to justify themselves. That they did it to keep living...I had my tributes behave like that."

They were already out anyways, there was no reason to not discuss that strategy, "There's a balance to strike in the Arena: enjoy killing too much or too brutal, I won't allow it." As twisted as this morality was, Leo did not want to allow the needless show offs of the previous careers.