Something I thought of regarding the SS2 Gohan scene in Japanese

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To put it as simply as possible, would an author ever write something like this if he intended to show the character's reluctance to fight? "I want to beat Cell", to me the answer is no, and since it's written by Toriyama it makes a lot of sense, android 16's speech was deliberately made to be meaningless.

...Yes? I mean, I don't know, it's not like an absolutely basic element in anxiety-ridden characters is a desire to do something but an inability to actually do it or anything