"Thanks. Dath ilan - is all about self-determination, see. In a world where people - can't decide for themselves, without hurting themselves - there's not - very much left, of what we are."
He doesn't like this, doesn't like what it's increasingly obvious is the thing he is going to end up deciding to do, from here, even if he hasn't decided it yet.
All he can do, maybe, is speedrun the Osirion arc, as much as he can, and get, past, the unhappy part.
"I am, not really, understanding, Osirion. I think - I suspect, speculate - that I was supposed to be here with Korva Tallandria, that she was supposed to help me understand this, but I shit all over her character route by being stupid and thoughtless and now this part is just, fouled beyond repair."