User blog comment:ForeignAgent/A new hope?/@comment-26018514-20181022185238/@comment-26018514-20181023235527

It matters because "willing to die for his cause" indicates awareness of such death as a possibility, there's not a single person whom you would describe as "willing to die for his cause", just because they went to the grocery store despite the risk of a car accident for example. If Adam is one of those people so self absorbed he doesn't see death as a possibility, then he isn't actually willing to die... he just thinks it won't happen.