Ralph frowns just slightly, tilting his head at how pessimistic that sounded. But, she had been through a lot, from what she had told him, so it made a sad sort of sense.

He shakes his head, "I mean, yeah the more people that're somewhere, the more of 'em could die. But, you get enough good guys on yer team, you eventually outnumber the bad."

That was the theory, anyway. It didn't always work exactly like that, sometimes you needed better technology or weapons to deal with a problem.