Not only do I understand why, but I would agree with you. One may not be able to make a perfect life, but that sort of end is precisely what I and my comrades have spent our lives trying to avert. I have no fondness for any sense of preordained fate, as I hope you realise.

[There's a difference between a hopeless fate and trudging on through hardships, he thinks. But he also understands morality is relative to some degree no matter how you slice it.]