[ His first inclination is to get angry with this response, to dismiss it completely as simply some attempt to stir the pot — but as Miller grants him the opportunity to keep talking and make his point, he settles into a more affected silence instead.

Is it wrong? The Chosen have died or disappeared again and again. Who knows how many there were in these previous cycles before them? And it's clear that their decisions were incorrect time and time again. They were doomed to become amalgamations of this simulated world, completely losing their former selves, or simply to cease existing at all. But what decisions had led them to that point? That's what he finds himself desperate to know, unwilling to do something less "safe" while that remains inscrutable to them. ]

Whichever choices we make, there is no telling whether more lives will be "vanished" in the process or not. Who's to say if we try to break ourselves out by force if it won't simply happen all at once rather than gradually, one by one?

[ Not to say he didn't take anything useful from that... ]

But okay. I admit that you have a point. If there's no telling one way or the other, then we would be remiss to let the assured disappearance of lives continue. I don't want to see this continue either.