But you do care. If you did, you wouldn't have to be so forceful. You're trying to convince yourself, Peter, I can hear it.

[His voice levels into sternness, guarded disapproval.]

They're not dead yet. Days still have meaning. Years still have meaning. Their pain is not meaningless, just as ours isn't. Retreat if you must, if you can't handle the pain, but stop this, or I will stop it for you.