"No, it is important. But I already know why it's important to me, it's me not being killed by lunatics."

He is thinking specifically of Ashton and the Eleven, honestly, who are the scariest people he's ever met in person.

"I already worried about that, I've taken steps. But why's it matter to you? You don't seem to like ... want to protect me, it's more like you're annoyed that I'm not - not displaying fear the same way you would?"