You have a point. [Loki raises his bottle before taking a deep gulp.]

Thanos found me half dead. I don't know how long I had drifted in the void, but it was long enough. I'd like to say he had to exert force to get me to do what he wanted, but he didn't. Didn't have too. I was half-mad, too far gone to see what an utterly terrible idea it was, and too angry to care.

So really, you could have done much worse with your pain.