“I mean that when a person revives as an EO, not all of them comes back. Things are missing.” Even Eli, blessed as he was, knew that he was missing pieces. “Important things like empathy and balance and fear and consequence. Those things that might temper their abilities, they’re missing. Tell me I’m wrong. Tell me you feel all those things the way you did before.”
He's applying a generalization that he has no way of knowing for sure exists. Eli fears testing on EOs, fears becoming an experiment, but some kind of counseling or inquiry other than his leap to this conclusion might have spared all the lives he's taken since becoming Eli Ever.
