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Read the following passage carefully:

Raymond assessed the structural integrity of the old tenement with the cold, diagnostic eye of a surgeon. To his assistants, he was a creature of pure calculus, noting the stress fractures in the joists and the shifting mortar of the foundation with a detached, monosyllabic efficiency. He wrote his condemnation reports in a dry, bureaucratic prose that left no room for sentimentality; if a wall deviated by more than three degrees, it was a hazard, and hazards were to be leveled. Yet, when the work crews departed and the shadows lengthened across the empty apartments, Raymond remained. In the dim light of his study, he opened a leather-bound notebook and, in a delicate, flowing script, recorded the histories of the buildings he had slated for destruction. He wrote of the families who had lived behind the cracked plaster, imagining the laughter that once echoed in rooms he had labeled 'uninhabitable.' In these pages, the structural flaws were not mathematical failures but the physical markings of lived experience—the settling of a house under the weight of human memory. He closed the book, locked it in his desk, and the next morning signed the demolition orders without a tremor in his hand.

In the passage, Raymond's clinical detachment during his daytime inspections stands in sharp contrast to his nighttime habit of writing sentimental histories of the condemned buildings. Which of the following best describes the thematic significance of this inconsistency in Raymond’s character?