We always have those hard decisions to make. We have experienced many of them and we know that some influence people and others don't. A human is forced into a sticky spot, he is now the leader of the Changeling Hive after their failure in Canterlot. The Hive is desperate to have a leader and if not they could possibly go extinct and the human isn't going to let that happen. But the decisions he makes have consequences and those consequences might lead to certain death. You can't make a decision without being ready with the consequences.