On that, we are agreed. If he had died as a result...

[But no matter how much he tries to dress it up as "causing them all a disadvantage" or "playing right into the Patron's hands," that isn't really what it's about at all and on some level he knows it.]

... we would just be giving our captors what they want. And he would have taken the coward's way out.

[Baldr has a whole lot of Feelings about dying, having done it more than once. More than anything, he hates when people don't appreciate the life that they have...]