Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'll ether be dead or with us. It's. . . it's more than we could hope for! Well, that's a sunny view of our situation.
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.