>>3798695
A lot of his unlikability, including being white if you care about the white savior complex concept since he's meant to be asian apparently, is an accident. There are merits to his idea in theory, but whichever way you view the situation, it is almost always more effective to just side with Joshua then do the speech check. If the situation was written differently, Daniel's path would be stronger. What if Happy Trails had a better ending with Daniel? What if the Sorrows always became worse with Joshua while only getting a neutral ending at best if you had shown mercy to Salts-Upon-Wounds? What if the White Legs were the Legion or another huge group in order to make staying in Zion feel like suicide (as is, you only need to outlast the White Legs long enough for the Legion to decree they failed and that's it). It takes very particular morals, misunderstanding what is happening, or a meta reason ("I wanna try and see what happens"/"I don't have any speech skill yet want a good ending still") to desire choosing Daniel's path because of this.