Hate when people are like "wah, wah, Doffy and his gang are so bad evil for teaching Law and other children how to use weapons and kill!"
First of all, tons of kids in the OP universe already know how to use weapons and kill, and none of what was happening on Spider Miles was worse that anything that happened to other children in the story. (In a lot of cases the kids on Spider Miles were a lot better off!)
and second of all that exact kind of martial training for children is played as heroic and good in plenty of YA novels and other children's' media.

















