#38 j.christian — “A lot of people are willing to kill for their cause (G. Alston), but how many are willing to die for it?”
Nobody outside of fanatics are *ever* willing to die for a “cause.” What rational people are willing to die for is protection of their home and family, and it’s not something one looks forward to doing.
#37 Amphipolis — “Threated westerners with death, or even harm, and they convert.”
In “Dune” (Frank Herbert) the difference between huimans and animals is discussed — it’s explained that an animal caught in a trap will chew it’s leg off to personally survive. A human will feign death for the chance to take out his captor so as to remove a threat to his kind.
If you are captured and you are told to convert or die, only a complete idiot would choose to die. It’s no different than animal behaviour. Better to live so as to be able to take out the captors later.
