"Why is it stupid?"

Feelings aren't stupid, in his opinion. No matter what they are. Everyone here had tried to beat that into his head, while he'd been having his own crisis. Over about the same thing, really.

This optics flick in Gunmax's direction, narrowing a bit.

"I can't forget things. That's... not something I want to do," he says. "Why would you say he could do better?"