[ hilariously no, gale did not explain this to famine but a different bg3 got it so he's not shocked. ]

I do not deny the plan for its efficiency. One life to save the world is nothing but math. If it were a stranger, I probably wouldn't care.

[ because famine is a person who relies on reason and logic the vast majority of the time. in another timeline, he knows that he would sacrifice one or two people for just one country. the problem is that he's not proud of that version of himself. ]

But since it is you, and I have deemed your life more worthwhile than your death, I find the whole plan to be rather nonsense.