In the opening of Knightfall, Azrael confronts and begins slaughtering a group of human trafficking gangsters. When he is about to execute the man selling the women and children, Batman intervenes and begins fighting him, protecting the human trafficker the entire time. I could not help but think of it as the trolley problem in reverse: He is protecting this literal human trafficker at all costs because letting Azrael kill one piece of shit that DESERVES TO DIE is somehow worse than letting said human trafficker sell women and children into (probably) sexual slavery.