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When you come right down to it, very few people have the balls to trade their lives for what they believe is right. Sure, people voluntarily join the armed forces and face the possibility of what turns out to be mostly accidental death, but the guy who has an attack of conscience and walks up to a tyrant and puts a bullet in his brain is almost certainly going to be made an example of by said tyrant's most fanatical cronies. Takes balls of steel to do what you know is right knowing full well you will not be around for the beneficial effects of your act. What you need is a critical mass of enough like minded individuals in the right positions (see what happened to Ceaucescu), but this is difficult to establish without getting killed in the process. It's why the Castros still plague Cuba, for example.