You can't convince someone that their delusion is wrong with words. Not directly. The only way out of that is to lead them to see some contradiction in it and figure out that it's wrong on their own.

[That's... Is that good advice, from Ogata? Weird.

Anyway, as far as death goes... that's a little more than Alex told him last time. And it just makes the thought he'd had then all the more true. So he decides to actually bring it up.]
You know... The way you describe death sounds a lot like war. Maybe that's why it makes so many men lose their minds. They're staring into the abyss and don't know it.

[Is Ogata including himself in this? It is impossible to know.]