Yes. Who they were, and who they might have become, if they had only been given the chance.

[But the world is...no, it could be a cruel place. It still has so much good in it, so much potential for more. And that's why he wants, above all else, to save it.]

I don't think there's any such thing as a life that should be thrown away for any reason.

[Though he knows, even as he says that, that he's such a hypocrite. Because hasn't he lived his own life as if it's one that's worth being discarded? Hasn't he been putting everyone here above him in importance? Why can't he just apply these truths to himself, too? Why is it so hard?]