Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
Even so, regardless of what you yourself think of the parameters of the test, it was administered, from Emet-Selch's perspective, on the basis of good faith and a sincere hope that we would pass and that together, we could find another way. That is indisputable. So any claims of "oh, he never really looked for another way, he'd always had his mind made up, he just wanted an excuse to condemn us" are flat-out, black and white, incorrect. Emet-Selch - as further indicated by Elpis - if anything, was desperately looking for an excuse to stop.
He should have looked a little harder, then. I can think of plenty of good reasons for him to not keep rejoining worlds - like the lives of all the people in them.