Rational ones, yes. This guy was not rational. So that does not appear to have been a factor in this case.
maybe not consciously, but surely sub-consciously.
There an inborn human tendency for self-preservation that would keep one from walking into an armed camp and start shooting.
who know if Alexis had thought through to the end game, but at some point he must have realized, “Oops, this is not how I wanted to end it all.”