"I don't know what the lesson is. It's simply easier for me to comprehend a creature unable to think in the scale of humans, because it's a difficulty I sometimes struggle with myself, even with all the interaction I've had with them."

[He pauses, missing Dean for a moment. Thinking about his own inability to do things like a human would.]

"Alternately, it could be that death's impermanence - and our and the Admiral's knowledge of this fact - makes it something he simply doesn't care about. Killing you doesn't stop you from being a good warden, so there's no reason to interfere on this matter."