It's enough that the dead ringer gets the point loud and clear.

"Not surprising. He's struck me as something of a fatalist, but how many people can say that they're actually okay with being resigned to that?"

No, he isn't okay. So very few really are. Hell, that's why their originals end up here, isn't it? Because every last one of them is a damn mess in some way, even the ones who seem scarcely culpable.