Yeah, my point was you can certainly empathize and "root for" Jim as he tries to rebuild his life, although his using the schoolchildren as amateur lookouts is certainly wrong. And he inflicts damage on Bill, through Bill's seeing the gun, and by the end Bill has convinced himself he didn't see what he did, out of love (just as Smiley ignores Ann's infidelities -- and Bill is explicitly seen as a kind of junior Smiley). Le Carre doesn't blame all this on just spying, though; it's his view of how people are. Collateral damage is his human condition.