Zdad,
nice means of clearing through the brush a way of retreat
What is our purpose?
Are we filing chap.11 on our mission?
Furthermore,in a yehorag va’al ya’avor situation if someone succumbs and doesn’t give up their life they are fully accountable, if they were potentially able to escape prior .We ( including you)were able to stop this movement and we still at the moment can stop parts of it if we are mentally arise and plan legally and through voting against these low lives and put in decent people, who push decent legislation.
If we don’t do this we are responsible for all their actions that come from or wrong actions or lack of actions.
Imagine if the maccabbees would have retreated to their private affairs as most jews of that era considered reasonable and realistic
“War is sorrowful, but there is one thing infinitely more horrible than the worst horrors of war, and that is the feeling that nothing is worth fighting for…”
“The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.”