I appreciate your words, Ratchet, I do. But why do you consider it the good answer? It's arguably the crueler one. Leaving him to die of starvation in an empty wasteland.

[Ratchet might even get a political treatise on the matter if given a day or two. But his question was earnest. He understands its all varying shades of gray... but it doesn't make him feel any better about the ordeal.]

Why does the method matter if they have the same outcome? Is there really a 'better' answer with this?