[ Uhm. Give him a moment. These are a lot of words to say to a man who's lived his entire life in the desperate hope to be acknowledged, to carve his name into history the way his family already has. All Garma wants it to be seen, in the scheme of things, and he's started a war for it (he didn't mean to, it's not that it was his intent, and yet...). ]

You're thinking in the long term so much that you're completely missing the significance of individual lives or even the lives of generations. What we do today can affect people for another century or more - even if it may wind up forgotten in the distant future, it will matter to millions and millions of people to come.

I can't approve of thinking of these people as meaningless.