It's not even an arguement over which will save more passengers. One choice is right, one isn't. If one "saves" passengers by making the wrong choice, one is lucky; one hasn't actually saved anything. One has been saved from one's own foolishness.
Barring something that prevents the airplane from going airborne, there's no reason to reject at high speed, and as most all of us agree, it's with good reason. It's not a matter of playing the odds or leveling risk, or weighing where the most survivors will occur. It's a matter of making the correct choice, and in most all cases, that's going airborne.