Well I am still not convinced that Sayid is one of the Oceanic 6 (I know he says he is but that doesn’t really mean very much does it) Jack, Hurley and Sun all appear to have returned to their previous lives as best they could whereas Sayid appears to have returned to the real world for a reason, to work for Ben. If Sayid has returned to work for Ben and the others haven’t then I would say he definitely isn’t one of the O6. If however Sayid is one of the O6 then I would say its Ben that chose who they are and would also say that Ben is the 6th person (pretending to be someone from flight 815)
Assuming that Sayid isn’t one of the O6 then I would guess
a) it was up to the losties themselves to decide who returns which would probably mean that Claire died prior to the O6 leaving the island; or
b) the O6 were the nearest people to the rescue mission and didn’t have time to make any choice other than be saved or not be saved and Kate happened to be looking after Aaron while Claire was having a swim or something
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