[The answer is so convinced and hard that Steve grits his teeth. The urge to rise to the challenge and argue back surges up, because he's always been that way, but-- but the anger has nothing to do with the man in front of him. He's suffering, and Steve doesn't know how much he's really seen.

He stays tense, but bites his tongue. It takes a few careful, controlled breaths, but he manages to keep his response level.]

No. But I'm not sure I can live with sentencing another world to death either. It's not just these hostile villages living here. Some of them should have a chance...

[That's what he wants to believe. Because that's what he's used to and the answer has always been there. But that was on Earth--and there had been times when the solution wasn't quite so simple. Lately, he's been struggling with that.]