Then the reason that John did not want us to talk about him taking Tyr and the shopkeepers was not because he expected real consequences. There are other motives that could explain this, then.

I had originally passed it off as John's general irreverence towards others, but the Organization's reaction to Tyr's disappearance and the respect Tyr's name garners makes one question John's tone. [Of course, he had been abducted shortly after the scientists demanded to know where Tyr was, and he had assumed his glib had earned him a wonderful dissected throat during his abduction.]

One is usually that disrespectful if they don't care at all, or if they know another very well. Just how close were Tyr and John?