As a victim, he would have used the bolt cutters ethically.

like, i gestured at this here, but part of what makes yrliet's romance stand out is that she's sexually unavailable to the player — in fact, she won't even be touched, and dislikes physical contact with the rogue trader even by the end of her "romance." accepting and defending this preference raises her respect and affection, and violating it enough times will shut down the romance! as a result, the yrliet romance simulates this level of personal agency & posits that a compatible partner for her is somebody who values her opinion and respects her, what she's willing to give, and what she isn't, moving away from a framework in which the LI and the typical romance milestones that come with them are awarded to the player as long as they press the right buttons, and ultimately moulded into what the player expects and is entitled to. & considering that yrliet is specifically a female LI, in the context of misogynist ideas about what women owe their romantic partners and how women are "supposed" to comport themselves within romantic relationships, it is really cool to see a character who is textually Not able to be changed to fit a kind of romanced woman/sexually available wife archetype! and, relatedly, that's also like the whole point— yrliet has a very different perspective from the rogue trader, in more ways than one, and the romance progresses specifically through being curious about her perspective and open to learning and adapting to meet her where she's at, rather than, in the rogue trader's capacity as More Powerful Than God (hyperbole), forcing her to conform to a dynamic that would be considered appropriate for the rogue trader, or permitted for the rogue trader to force.