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Happy to. I view this as a philosophical discussion being discussed somewhat calmly in a lounge room rather than a debate in an auditorium.Well, at any rate, I think we can agree that the MC has objective reasons to act the way he does. His mental insights work well enough for me, but I suppose, they might not work for people with a different personality. So, let us agree to disagree on that point.
I just think amnesiac coma patients are a tough literary tool, it's far too easy to work in a whole set of assumptions about how a reset person would do this or that and why, trying to model it in your mind runs the risk of biases polluting the model, none of us have been reset and even if we've met such people they're a dataset of 1 and still exterior to us. I try to imagine an amnesiac coma patient and no matter how well i do or don't do it's still only a model. We could discuss the possibilities for days and still disagree on myriad points. I guess, for me at least, the character just doesn't add up, his choices seem arbitrary to me, like he's governed far more by the plot than by supposedly being an actual person... but i could be wrong and it's just my distaste for a cunt sister and mother with a phone glued to her hand causing me to misweigh (is that a word?) the possible/probable reactions from a reset person.