There wasn't really an argument to be made against that. Everything Rich was saying was completely logical - under different circumstances, with someone else, maybe something Hal would've said himself, even.

But this was Sinestro, and something in Hal couldn't quite accept him as a lost cause.

He sighed, and took a sip of his drink, and tried to come up with a better argument than yeah, but he could be so great if he'd just stop being an idiot about things.

It wasn't coming.