That's right. [Or at least, that's as simply an explanation as one can make of it. He's not even going to try and bring Van into this, nope nope.]

The Score promised unprecedented prosperity for mankind... but there are those who believed so strongly in it, they tried to incite war only because the Score predicted it would happen.

I don't think it's right to justify bringing so much suffering on the world for the sake of a prophecy. There's always another way. Another path. That's why I don't believe in a predetermined future...

[A pause, and then softer:] ...that's why I don't want to.