"I do not think that she was wrong... just... perhaps limited. Monsters lack determination. At least, they lack the human sort. I do not know if I was trapped in my actions and the other human children could have... done something to alter it. Alphys' attempts to reconcile determination to Monsters proved... well. Unsuccessful as planned."

Asgore thought back to the time that Wonderland made the Amalgamates come into being, and he was shown the end result of Alphys' experimentations in determination.

"You changed things. Sometimes killing, sometimes not. You were determined where I... could not be. Within your limited scope of possibilities. In the system which I had set up for you. There's a... mechanical governance of the world... one where options come pre-selected for you, where the choice between A and B is no choice at all. In those moments, can one ever said to be culpable for their own actions? It is only in those slivers of the world where we have true choices that we can engage in a moral governance... I had a choice, once. But then once made, I became entrapped by it. It hemmed in all other actions... blinded by pride and fear..."