For a split-second Donnie looked like he regretted yelling back, but he doubled down on it.
"So maybe we'd both accidentally kill someone and feel terrible about it, but in the moment, you were doing what you thought would work, you were trying to open the pod! Cutting the energy would in theory work, but unfortunately nothing of the tech and information for anything make sense because some stupid entities figured it was better separating knowledge and understanding of things that otherwise have informational overlaps but for whatever reason it doesn't translate that way when we rewrite our brain with their preprogrammed information!
"So I can't be mad at you for doing what you thought would work, because you were doing what you thought you could. And maybe things would have turned out terribly if Leo and Wesker didn't do anything, maybe I wouldn't be here yelling at you. But I am, and things worked out one way or another. You keep talking about something that's already happened, that you wouldn't do anything different. I get that. But if it happened again in the future, would you still do it, knowing what you do now? You're focused on the wrong thing. Stop beating yourself up over something that almost happened. Wesker already did that for you."
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For a split-second Donnie looked like he regretted yelling back, but he doubled down on it.
"So maybe we'd both accidentally kill someone and feel terrible about it, but in the moment, you were doing what you thought would work, you were trying to open the pod! Cutting the energy would in theory work, but unfortunately nothing of the tech and information for anything make sense because some stupid entities figured it was better separating knowledge and understanding of things that otherwise have informational overlaps but for whatever reason it doesn't translate that way when we rewrite our brain with their preprogrammed information!
"So I can't be mad at you for doing what you thought would work, because you were doing what you thought you could. And maybe things would have turned out terribly if Leo and Wesker didn't do anything, maybe I wouldn't be here yelling at you. But I am, and things worked out one way or another. You keep talking about something that's already happened, that you wouldn't do anything different. I get that. But if it happened again in the future, would you still do it, knowing what you do now? You're focused on the wrong thing. Stop beating yourself up over something that almost happened. Wesker already did that for you."