Considering what returning to the main menu would entail, that could be incredibly risky, much this maneuver already was considering he doesn't actually know if loading a previous save would work or if him dying comes with no do-overs.
Because, as much as she might seemingly indicate otherwise, she actually really does care about him (and people in the past said I was crazy for believing it to be so just because she's weirded out by the stuff he pulls.) He really scared her into thinking he had actually died, especially since...
She complains about them skipping the traps as if they were meant to solve the whole thing properly, and yet she left no normal means of getting through the traps. It's great if you are just protecting something meant to go undisturbed, but it seems someone needs to take some lessons on dungeon...
Yeah, people tend to really underestimate how bad it'd actually, especially since it's nearly everyday and he still isn't technically back to being at 100%. Sure his recovering form has significantly more strength and stamina than any of us, but that actually doesn't matter since it still...
It's not just about times of famine though, people can be left to starve and scrounge for food even in prosperous times, all it takes is some extremes in the distribution of wealth, you can even see it in the modern day, even though in theory the current yield of food in the world should be...
Actually, there is a certain logic behind his thought process, even if it is a ridiculous extreme. The idea being that cooking and such leads to certain foods becoming luxuries that get hoarded by those with wealth and power, and it is something we have seen time and again in our own history...
I think that's kind of the point, he's a reflection of views taken to an illogical extreme because of a correlation = causation mindset and he acts as a warning about how even something that seems good, like wanting to make sure that all people can have enough to eat, can become completely and...
Those that profess themselves and their race to be perfect will often find that their greatest flaw is their inability to see how imperfect they actually are