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No, no it is not a lack on my behalf. I'm thinking about this from Amy's perspective now. I'm trapped in an area which is completely empty and isolated except for a handless robot, I sleep on a rough floor, I can't eat proper food (not that I need to), I can't go anywhere or enjoy the illusionary paradise without constantly being stalked by robots, I had to spend years learning how to fight the robots as well and build the sonic probe. And I cry every night for the husband who didn't come back for me. Then all of a sudden he comes back. He has a plan which will make sure that all of the torment I have suffered will be removed from existence and I'll be able to be with him. I'll be able to forget the torment I suffered and be the same age as him again. Plus I will be helping myself live 36 better years which were not lived in anger and fear. And even if I stop existing, I will know that the younger me will survive. A younger me who will not have suffered as I have done. I would have to be really selfish and have a complete lack of compassion and empathy to not go with this plan.
But you won't live with your husband. You'll be dead. You will cease to exist and everything that made you you for most of your life will have been destroyed so some older copy of you can live in bliss. If not wanting that means I'm completely selfish then sure, I'm selfish. I'd rather live in a robot hell than be dead just so someone who looks and acts like I did 34 years ago doesn't have to put up with the crap I did.
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Now let's see it from the Doctor's prespective. Obviously having two Amy's in the TARDIS is a no-no. As Amy and Rory's protector I have to make sure they are happy. They will be happy if they can grow old together like a proper couple. Then there's 59 year old Amy herself. She has a much different viewpoint than the young Amy. She hates, despises and resents me. That's not safe for me, not safe at all. She could betray me to any new enemy with a decent diplomacy modifier. Because it is a character trait of mine to eliminate all threats to me. Plus there is also her attitude to the plan. She is esentially saying she wants to let herself suffer for 36 years just so that she can survive. That's selfish. And I don't like selfish companions. I kicked out the last one (Adam Mitchell). Selfish companions are a hazzard. So I lie to her to convince her to go with the plan. This, whilst bad on it's own, has been done for the greater good so that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Plus, 36 years less emotional baggage.
No more dangerous than having the Master on board and he was cool with that plan. And really, you got the angry vibe from newAmy that she would betray the Doctor? That would almost assuredly mean betraying Rory. She wouldn't do that. The Doctor gives chances to those he doesn't trust, it's what he does.
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It's also not like the Doctor regenerating. The Doctor means something. He saves people and can go anywhere he wants. His life is important. If he dies his personallity will be gone forever. Amy had been living in a vacuum and was warped and bitter because of it. If she goes bye bye, Amy survives but at a handy save-point. Then her life can continue. For the better.
Wait so because the Doctor is more specials Amy can't regret dying, even though for the Doctor he will keep on going with all his memories intact and Amy will essentially be dead. What kind of reasoning is this? Her personality will be far more destroyed than the Doctor's was who still has all his memories and experiences.