Interestingly enough, I also lost respect for Kal in this scene, just for a different reason. (I should preface my next statements with I have never liked Kal. I respect him, but don't like him.) How decision to challenge Amaram was stupid. He knew he wouldn't be able to prove anything. He trusted Dalinar, he should just have left it at that. Even if he didn't think Dalinar was going to do anything about it, he should have realized that a bunch MORE Lighteyes wouldn't have believed him either. I think his backing down was a smart thing to do, though I was really irritated at his follow up scenes in prison. And whoever tried to tell me it is all Elhokars fault, let me just say that if Kaladin hadn't been an idiot, none of this would have happened. It was partially his fault they didn't catch Sadeus. I don't like reading Kaladin's chapters in the first place, but these chapters are absolute torture.