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Ok I am not sure if this has been brought up before, but I think it could be important so I am posting this now..

In The season 3 finale Ben said something to Jack about contacting the freighter.

[Jack does so with Ben]
BEN: Not so long ago, Jack. I made a decision, that took the lives of over forty people in a single day. I'm telling you this because, history is about to repeat itself, right here, right now.
JACK: Let me guess, you've got us surrounded, and if I don't do what you say you're gonna, you're gonna kill all my people.
BEN: No Jack, you are.
[Jack laughs]
JACK: And how am I going to do that, Ben?
BEN: The woman you're travelling with. The one who parachuted onto the Island from that helicopter. She's not who she says she is.
JACK: She's not, huh?
BEN: No she's not.
JACK: Then who is she?
BEN: She's a representative of some people who've been trying to find this Island, Jack. She's one of the bad guys.
JACK: Oh, I almost forgot, you're the, you're the good guys.
BEN: Jack, listen to me. If you phone her boat, every single living person on this Island will be killed. So here's what has to happen. Get that device, the phone she carries with her, and give it me. I will turn around, we'll go back to my people, you will turn around and go back to your people.
JACK: I'm not going anywhere.

Ben says that every single living person on this island will be killed.

Tell me why would Ben feel he needs to say every living person.. are there any other kind that can be killed? I think it could give some insight to who/what are on the island.. Anyone else have any thoughts about this or insights?