[Bonus chapter thanks to chronotitan <3]
There hadn't been any obvious issues with Benny's actions back then. He had, indeed, stopped the woman from making the wrong decision, and the fact he wanted to cooperate and vote on their choices was probably the correct one if all things were equal.
The trouble was mainly twofold.
First, Benny had reacted far too quickly, more quickly than even Sylas. Was that partially because Sylas hadn't expected space to be so restricted? Benny was still far too fast.
He would have had to not only register the fact the woman was making the wrong choice, but already decide that it was best to stop her even if it might cost him an ally and make him come off as aggressive to the other parties.
The reason why this wasn't enough to conclude anything, though, was because maybe Benny hadn't deduced anything and he just felt it was foolish to leave his life up to someone else's unilateral decision.
But then there was the second glaring issue.
