Right or no, when a city is besieged on all sides, sometimes all needed to fight. When the objective was survival, people often weren't allowed to suffer the luxury of innocence or choice.

"And do you believe we have time to wait for his solution?" Loki knew patience, but he also knew a time to strike, and the tension quickly mounting in the city seemed about to break. If something wasn't done soon...there would be none among them remaining to end it.