I think your comment would have been much stronger if instead of "Many of them might survive" you said something more akin to "The overwhelming majority will su

I think your comment would have been much stronger if instead of "Many of them might survive" you said something more akin to "The overwhelming majority will survive". Falsely weakening it as you did will cause people to distrust the rest of your message, which I feel is accurate as it stands. Why did you choose the phrasing that you used?