Talk:Al/@comment-34629965-20180216131224/@comment-2001:8000:159F:E300:E5FE:835D:9BAC:F3D5-20190102062903

It's also possible that losing his arm was the best outcome he had available to him. Perhaps he tried hundreds of permutations and lost in all of them, and took the only outcome where he lived even if it cost him an arm.