Which act requires one to expend the most effort on a worthless cause?
Perhaps a simple push towards a trashcan would be a compromise.
If you are going to be, for certain, taken “out”? Would you rather go to your judgement, punching or shrugging?
In Aristotle's Ethics he maintains that a superior man " will not take petty risks,and is no lover of danger, because he holds few things in honor; but he is ready to meet great danger,and in the face of it he is unsparing of his life, knowing that one can buy even life too dearly". So even though in the end we are led to believe that Galt's War of Attrition will succeed, I always found the strategy of pulling the producers out of society and not confronting head on the evil destroying the world strangely unheroic in an Aristotelian sense.
As whodathunkit put it, the punch vs shrug enigma. I look forward to this great thread to settle this issue. Thank you again Publius for doing this.