Gi-hun in S2 isn't trying to stop the games because he values himself so little that he's willing to trade his life away just for the chance to save a single stranger.
Gi-hun in S2 is trying to stop the games because he values himself enough to believe that he is capable of making a positive difference in the world. He values himself enough to believe that he is capable of helping other people who are most in need of help. He values himself enough to believe that he is capable of fighting for a cause that matters to him enough to be worth dying for, if that's what it comes down to.
That's why the revelation that made Gi-hun turn around at the airport was,
"I'm not a horse. I'm a person."
Gi-hun believes in the value of people. He believes that people have agency, that they matter, and that at least some of them care about helping other people in need and will do so when they can whether or not it gets them anything in return.
It was precisely his recognition that he is a person, too, that gave him the strength to recognize that he, too, has agency and power that he can use to help other people in need. He has the agency to make his life mean something of value to himself.
If he doesn't succeed? Then at least he knows that other people might at least be inspired and/or empowered enough by what he was able to accomplish that they'll keep fighting to help after he can't anymore. That is valuable, to him, too. That is an outcome that would mean his death wasn't meaningless, either.
(Though there's plenty of evidence that Gi-hun doesn't want to die. He's fighting for something that he is ready to die for, which is a lot more meaningful when his life means something to himself, as well.)
Gi-hun values himself because he is a person, and he values people. You can't ask Gi-hun to stop valuing other people without asking him not to value himsef.
(Which is, incidentally, In-ho's goal in breaking Gi-hun.)
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