Does that mean you'd also be to blame if anyone were to die while you were here? That's a pretty hefty burden to shoulder yourself with, lady.

[He doesn't answer the question about wanting to be alive, since he got the feeling it was mostly a rhetorical question.]

Well if you think about it clearly then isn't being nice to people like walking while manipulating others, being an asshole and pushing to get your own way is like running? They both get you where you're going but one of them gets you there faster.

And having enough endurance to keep, uhm, "running" for so long isn't something to be sniffed at.